U+C9C0 "지" Hangul Syllable Ji Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
지
U+C9C0 "지" Hangul Syllable Ji is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the sound "ji." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅈ (j) and the vowel ㅣ (i), and it functions as a complete grapheme in modern Korean text, where it can appear as a standalone word meaning "knowledge," "wisdom," or "location" depending on the context, or as part of larger compound words. This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard’s Hangul Syllables block, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables to support efficient text processing for Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C9C0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ji |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄌ" U+110C Hangul Choseong Cieuc "ᅵ" U+1175 Hangul Jungseong I |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 지 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 지 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA7 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC9C0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C9C0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc9c0 |