U+C824 "젤" Hangul Syllable Jel Unicode Character
U+C824 "젤" Hangul Syllable Jel is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "jel," formed by the initial consonant ㅈ (j) pronounced as an unaspirated affricate similar to the English "j" in "jam," the medial vowel ㅔ (e) which sounds like the "e" in "bed," and the final consonant ㄹ (l) that is realized as a light [l] sound at the end of a syllable. In modern Korean, this character appears in words such as "젤리" (jelli) meaning "jelly" and "젤" (jeol) as a shortened form of "조금 더" or a casual expression for "more," though it also functions as a component in various compound terms and names. The syllable belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants in a single code point for efficient text processing and rendering.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C824 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jel |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "제" U+C81C Hangul Syllable Je "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 젤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 젤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA0 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC824 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C824 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc824 |