U+C9C8 "질" Hangul Syllable Jil Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
질
U+C9C8 "질" Hangul Syllable Jil is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "jil" as a combination of the initial consonant ᄌ (j) and the vowel ᅵ (i) followed by the final consonant ᆯ (l). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet in a single character. This syllable appears in many common Korean words, such as "질문" (jilmun, meaning question) and "물질" (muljil, meaning substance or material), making it an essential component of written Korean for both everyday and academic vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C9C8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jil |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "지" U+C9C0 Hangul Syllable Ji "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 질 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 질 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA7 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC9C8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C9C8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc9c8 |