U+C9A8 "즨" Hangul Syllable Jyin Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C9A8 "즨" Hangul Syllable Jyin is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant 'ㅈ' (jieut), the medial vowel 'ㅢ' (ui), and the final consonant 'ㄴ' (nieun), resulting in the sound "jyin". This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet as defined in the contemporary standard. Though "즨" itself is not a common or productive syllable in standard Korean vocabulary today, it is properly encoded to ensure complete coverage of the Hangul syllabary for text processing and historical or technical use cases.

General Properties

Code Point U+C9A8
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jyin
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "즤" U+C9A4 Hangul Syllable Jyi
"ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 즨
HTML Hex Encoding 즨
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xA6 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC9A8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C9A8
C/C++/Java Escape \uc9a8

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