U+C929 "줩" Hangul Syllable Jweob Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
줩
U+C929 "줩" Hangul Syllable Jweob is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "jweob." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅈ" (jieut, pronounced like the English "j"), the medial vowel "ㅝ" (weo, a compound vowel blending "u" and "eo"), and the final consonant "ㅂ" (bieup, pronounced as "b" or "p"). This syllable belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllables of the Korean alphabet in a single, contiguous range for efficient text processing. While not a commonly used syllable in everyday Korean vocabulary, it can appear in specialized or literary contexts, such as in the word "줩다" (jweopda), meaning "to narrow" or "to be confined."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C929 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jweob |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "줘" U+C918 Hangul Syllable Jweo "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 줩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 줩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA4 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC929 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C929 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc929 |