U+C9EE "짮" Hangul Syllable Jjabs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C9EE "짮" Hangul Syllable Jjabs is a specific precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "jj" (ㅉ), the vowel "a" (ㅏ), and the final consonant "bs" (ㅄ). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllabic blocks formed from the Korean alphabet's initial, medial, and final sounds, allowing for efficient text processing in digital environments. As a precomposed form, it provides a single code point for a sound that could also be represented by a sequence of individual jamo characters, but the unified block simplifies storage and display in systems that support the Korean language.

General Properties

Code Point U+C9EE
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jjabs
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
"ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 짮
HTML Hex Encoding 짮
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xA7 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC9EE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C9EE
C/C++/Java Escape \uc9ee

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