U+C99F "즟" Hangul Syllable Jeuc Unicode Character
U+C99F "즟" Hangul Syllable Jeuc is a precomposed syllable representing the sound "jeuc" in the Korean writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅈ (j) and the vowel ㅡ (eu) with the final consonant ㅊ (ch). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which was added to the Unicode standard to efficiently encode the vast number of possible syllable blocks in modern and historical Korean text. As a precomposed form, "즟" allows for straightforward text processing and display, ensuring that this specific phonetic unit is represented as a single character rather than requiring dynamic combination of its individual jamo components. This syllable is relatively rare in modern Korean, with few common words containing it, and it primarily serves to preserve the full orthographic inventory of the language for academic, historical, or specialized usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C99F |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jeuc |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 즟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 즟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA6 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC99F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C99F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc99f |