U+C843 "졃" Hangul Syllable Jyeolb Unicode Character
U+C843 "졃" Hangul Syllable Jyeolb is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "jyeolb." It is formed by combining the initial consonant jieut (ㅈ), the medial vowel yeo (ㅕ), and the final consonant rieul-bieup (ㄼ), which itself is a compound final consonant composed of rieul (ㄹ) and bieup (ㅂ). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes the 11,172 possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet in a logical, systematic order based on the sequence of initial, medial, and final components. While "졃" is a valid and correctly formed syllable according to Korean orthographic rules, it is extremely rare in everyday language and appears primarily in specialized linguistic contexts or older texts rather than in common modern vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C843 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jyeolb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 졃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 졃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA1 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC843 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C843 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc843 |