U+C98E "즎" Hangul Syllable Jeunh Unicode Character
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 |