U+C885 "종" Hangul Syllable Jong Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
종
U+C885 "종" Hangul Syllable Jong is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "jong" as in the English word "song" with an initial "j" sound. It is formed from the combination of the initial consonant ㅈ (j) and the final consonant ㅇ (ng) with the medial vowel ㅗ (o), making it one of 11,172 possible Hangul syllables encoded in Unicode. This character is commonly used in Korean vocabulary, appearing in words such as "종이" (jong-i, meaning paper) and "마지막" (ma-ji-mak, meaning last), and plays a fundamental role in the written expression of the Korean language on digital platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C885 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jong |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "조" U+C870 Hangul Syllable Jo "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 종 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 종 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA2 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC885 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C885 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc885 |