U+C816 "젖" Hangul Syllable Jeoj Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
젖
U+C816 "젖" Hangul Syllable Jeoj is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "jeoj." It is formed by combining the initial consonant jieut (ㅈ), the medial vowel yeo (ㅕ), and the final consonant jieut (ㅈ), and it appears in the Unicode block Hangul Syllables, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet. In Korean, this character is commonly used in words such as "젖다" (jeotda), meaning to become wet or damp, and "젖" (jeot), meaning breast or milk, making it a functional element in everyday vocabulary and writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C816 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jeoj |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "저" U+C800 Hangul Syllable Jeo "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 젖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 젖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA0 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC816 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C816 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc816 |