U+C990 "즐" Hangul Syllable Jeul Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
즐
U+C990 "즐" Hangul Syllable Jeul is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "jeul." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅈ" (jieut), the medial vowel "ㅡ" (eu), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (rieul) into a single block. This syllable appears in various Korean words, including "즐겁다" (jeulgeopda), meaning "to be enjoyable" or "pleasant," and "즐기다" (jeulgida), meaning "to enjoy" or "take pleasure in." As part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, it is widely used in digital text for the Korean language, enabling efficient encoding and rendering of the syllable without requiring separate composition of its individual components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C990 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jeul |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 즐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 즐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA6 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC990 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C990 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc990 |