U+C9E5 "짥" Hangul Syllable Jjalg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
짥
U+C9E5 "짥" Hangul Syllable Jjalg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "jj" (ㅉ), the medial vowel "a" (ㅏ), and the final consonant cluster "lg" (ㄺ). This syllable is formed algorithmically within the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes 11,172 syllables in a systematic order based on their initial, medial, and final components. As part of standard Korean typography, "짥" is used in written Korean to express specific lexical items, such as the adjective "짧다" meaning "short," though the standalone syllable typically appears in conjugated or derived forms within sentences.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C9E5 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjalg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "짜" U+C9DC Hangul Syllable Jja "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 짥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 짥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA7 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC9E5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C9E5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc9e5 |