U+C966 "쥦" Hangul Syllable Jwij Unicode Character
U+C966 "쥦" Hangul Syllable Jwij is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system for Korean, representing the phonetic sound "jwij" (often romanized as "jwii" or "jwi" with a tense final consonant). It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅈ" (j), the medial vowel "ㅟ" (wi), and the final consonant "ㅈ" (j), which together exemplify the systematic block construction and stacking rules used in Korean orthography to create tens of thousands of distinct syllabic characters. This specific syllable is relatively rare in modern Korean vocabulary, but its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper text rendering and storage for historical documents, linguistic research, or specialized contexts where precise phonetic representation is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C966 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jwij |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쥦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쥦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA5 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC966 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C966 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc966 |