U+C855 "졕" Hangul Syllable Jyeg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C855 "졕" Hangul Syllable Jyeg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used to write the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅈ" (j), the medial vowel "ㅖ" (ye), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (g), resulting in the sound "jyeg." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet according to the standard compositional rules of the script. While not common in everyday modern Korean text, it could theoretically appear in specialized vocabulary, transliterations, or older written forms, helping to ensure complete digital representation of the language's syllabic structure.

General Properties

Code Point U+C855
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jyeg
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "졔" U+C854 Hangul Syllable Jye
"ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 졕
HTML Hex Encoding 졕
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xA1 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC855
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C855
C/C++/Java Escape \uc855

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter