U+C8FD "죽" Hangul Syllable Jug Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
죽
U+C8FD "죽" Hangul Syllable Jug is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "juk," which is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅈ" (j), the medial vowel "ㅜ" (u), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (k). In the Korean language, this syllable carries a variety of meanings depending on context, most notably as the root of the word "죽다" (jukda) meaning "to die," as well as referring to "congee" or "porridge" when used in the word "죽" (juk) itself. It is part of the modern Hangul syllabary, which consists of thousands of such precomposed characters encoded in Unicode to facilitate efficient digital text processing for Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C8FD |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jug |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "주" U+C8FC Hangul Syllable Ju "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 죽 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 죽 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA3 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC8FD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C8FD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc8fd |