U+C9EC "짬" Hangul Syllable Jjam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
짬
U+C9EC "짬" Hangul Syllable Jjam is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "jjam," formed by combining the initial consonant ㅈ (jieut), the vowel ㅏ (a), and the final consonant ㅁ (mieum). In the modern Korean language, this character often appears in words related to time, capacity, or opportunity, such as "짬" (jjam) meaning a free moment or spare time, and is also used in compound terms like "짬밥" (jjambap), a slang expression for military or institutional meals. This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block within Unicode, encoded for consistent digital representation across platforms and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C9EC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjam |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 짬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 짬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA7 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC9EC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C9EC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc9ec |