U+C955 "쥕" Hangul Syllable Jwinj Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C955 "쥕" Hangul Syllable Jwinj is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅈ" (j), the medial vowel "ㅟ" (wi), and the final consonant "ㄵ" (nj). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was added to encode the approximately 11,172 possible syllable blocks of the Korean alphabet without requiring dynamic combination of individual jamo characters. While this specific syllable is uncommon in contemporary standard Korean vocabulary, it demonstrates the systematic and comprehensive nature of the Unicode Hangul encoding, which supports both frequently used and rare phonetic forms for accurate text representation.

General Properties

Code Point U+C955
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jwinj
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "쥐" U+C950 Hangul Syllable Jwi
"ᆬ" U+11AC Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Cieuc

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쥕
HTML Hex Encoding 쥕
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xA5 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC955
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C955
C/C++/Java Escape \uc955

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