U+C9EB "짫" Hangul Syllable Jjalh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C9EB "짫" Hangul Syllable Jjalh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic sound "jjalh" as a combination of the initial consonant "jj" (ㅉ), the vowel "a" (ㅏ), and the final consonant "lh" (ㅀ). This specific syllable is rarely used in everyday Korean vocabulary, as it belongs to a set of syllables that are formally valid in Hangul orthography but have few or no common lexical occurrences. It functions primarily as a theoretical glyph within the vast Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encompasses all 11,172 possible combinations of initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants.

General Properties

Code Point U+C9EB
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jjalh
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
"ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 짫
HTML Hex Encoding 짫
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xA7 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC9EB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C9EB
C/C++/Java Escape \uc9eb

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter