U+C9DC "짜" Hangul Syllable Jja Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
짜
U+C9DC "짜" Hangul Syllable Jja is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "jja" as a tense consonant combined with the vowel "a." It is composed of the initial consonant ㅈ (j), the tensed variant ㅉ (jj), and the vowel ㅏ (a), though in its encoded form it is a single codepoint rather than a sequence of individual jamo. This syllable is used in standard Korean vocabulary, such as in the word 짜다 (jjada), meaning "salty" or "tight," and it appears in various contexts including everyday speech, literature, and digital text across platforms that support Unicode.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C9DC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jja |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄍ" U+110D Hangul Choseong Ssangcieuc "ᅡ" U+1161 Hangul Jungseong A |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 짜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 짜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA7 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC9DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C9DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc9dc |