U+C842 "졂" Hangul Syllable Jyeolm Unicode Character
U+C842 "졂" Hangul Syllable Jyeolm is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic value "jyeolm" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅈ (jieut), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant ㄻ (rieul-mieut). This syllable is formed according to the standard rules of Hangul syllabic block composition, where individual jamo characters are grouped into a single square-shaped glyph for streamlined text rendering and typographic consistency. While "졂" is a valid and officially assigned character in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible modern Korean syllables in a standardized order, it is considered extremely rare in actual Korean vocabulary and is not commonly encountered in everyday writing or speech. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures a complete and systematic representation of the Korean script, supporting accurate text processing and display for all permissible syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C842 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jyeolm |
| 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 "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 졂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 졂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA1 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC842 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C842 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc842 |