U+C857 "졗" Hangul Syllable Jyegs Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
졗
U+C857 "졗" Hangul Syllable Jyegs is a precomposed syllable used in the Korean writing system, representing the phonetic value "jyegs." It is formed from the initial consonant jieut (ㅈ), the vowel ye (ㅖ, a diphthong derived from ㅓ and ㅣ), and the final consonant giyeok-siot (ㄳ, a compound leading consonant cluster), categorizing it within the modern Hangul alphabet under the Unicode block for Hangul Syllables, which encodes approximately 11,172 such syllables for standard Korean script. While not commonly used in everyday modern Korean, it demonstrates the systematic compositionality of Hangul, where each syllable block combines initials, vowels, and finals to represent distinct sounds in the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C857 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jyegs |
| 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 "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 졗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 졗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA1 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC857 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C857 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc857 |