U+C839 "젹" Hangul Syllable Jyeog Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
젹
U+C839 "젹" Hangul Syllable Jyeog is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system for the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅈ" (j), the medial vowel "ㅕ" (yeo), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (g), which together produce the sound "jyeog." This syllable belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was designed to encode all possible combinations of Korean letters efficiently rather than requiring separate processing of individual jamo. This specific character, like many Hangul syllables, is used in Korean texts to represent a single mora or phonetic unit, though it is relatively uncommon in everyday modern vocabulary and may appear primarily in specialized or historical contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C839 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jyeog |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "져" U+C838 Hangul Syllable Jyeo "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 젹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 젹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA0 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC839 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C839 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc839 |