U+C9E7 "짧" Hangul Syllable Jjalb Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
짧
U+C9E7 "짧" Hangul Syllable Jjalb is a precomposed Korean syllable that represents the sound "jjalb" and is formed from the initials consonant "jj" (ㅉ), the vowel "a" (ㅏ), and the final consonant cluster "lb" (ㄼ). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character encodes a complete syllable block rather than combining individual jamo components, which simplifies text processing and rendering for modern Korean. It appears in written Korean as part of words like "짧다" (to be short) and reflects the systematic structure of the Korean writing system where syllables are composed in a square-shaped block, with the initial consonant and vowel placed in the upper portion and the final consonant or cluster at the bottom.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C9E7 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjalb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 짧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 짧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA7 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC9E7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C9E7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc9e7 |