U+C998 "즘" Hangul Syllable Jeum Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
즘
U+C998 "즘" Hangul Syllable Jeum is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "jeum," composed of the initial consonant ㅈ (jieut), the medial vowel ㅡ (eu), and the final consonant ㅁ (mieum). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is encoded as a single character to facilitate efficient text processing and rendering in the Korean writing system. This syllable is used in modern Korean vocabulary, appearing in words such as "그즘" (geujeum, meaning "recently" or "these days") and "즉시" (jeungsi, meaning "immediately"), and its correct representation is supported across standard digital platforms and fonts that handle Korean script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C998 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jeum |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 즘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 즘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA6 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC998 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C998 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc998 |