U+C98E "즎" Hangul Syllable Jeunh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C98E "즎" Hangul Syllable Jeunh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic value "jeunh." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅈ (j), the medial vowel ㅡ (eu), and the final consonant ㄶ (nh), which is a complex coda comprising ㅎ (h) after ㄴ (n). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of Korean letters for efficient text processing. In practice, "즎" is a relatively rare syllable, appearing mostly in specific vocabulary or transcriptions, and its existence underscores the systematic nature of Hangul, where each block of characters phonetically constructs a syllable from its constituent jamo.

General Properties

Code Point U+C98E
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jeunh
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "즈" U+C988 Hangul Syllable Jeu
"ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 즎
HTML Hex Encoding 즎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xA6 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC98E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C98E
C/C++/Java Escape \uc98e

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