U+C840 "졀" Hangul Syllable Jyeol Unicode Character
U+C840 "졀" Hangul Syllable Jyeol is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "jyeol." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅈ (j), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant ㄹ (l), which together produce a single, codified block character. This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables to facilitate efficient text processing and display in digital environments. As a standard character, "졀" is used in written Korean to denote the phoneme sequence /tɕjʌl/, appearing in vocabulary such as the word "졸업" (graduation) or other contexts where the sound occurs. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent representation across computing systems, supporting proper rendering and input for Korean language users worldwide.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C840 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jyeol |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 졀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 졀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA1 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC840 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C840 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc840 |