U+C838 "져" Hangul Syllable Jyeo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
져
U+C838 "져" Hangul Syllable Jyeo is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "jyeo," formed from the initial consonant "ㅈ" (jieut) and the vowel "ㅕ" (yeo). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which encodes the modern Korean alphabet in a systematic, two-byte range to facilitate digital text processing. As a common syllable in the Korean language, it appears in everyday words such as "져" (jeo, meaning "that" in a casual context) and is rendered visually as a compact square block, following the traditional layout of Hangul characters. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper display and input across modern computing platforms, supporting Korean language use in digital communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C838 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jyeo |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄌ" U+110C Hangul Choseong Cieuc "ᅧ" U+1167 Hangul Jungseong Yeo |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 져 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 져 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA0 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC838 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C838 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc838 |