U+C9F6 "짶" Hangul Syllable Jjap Unicode Character
U+C9F6 "짶" Hangul Syllable Jjap is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅉ" (jj, a tensed affricate) with the vowel "ㅏ" (a) and the final consonant "ㅍ" (p). This character represents a relatively rare syllable in Korean that does not appear in common vocabulary, though it could theoretically occur in sound symbolic words, nonstandard spellings, or loanword transliterations where the tense initial consonant and final plosive are necessary. As part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, U+C9F6 follows the standard algorithmic ordering of the Korean writing system, where each syllable is encoded as a single character for efficient text processing. Its usage is extremely limited in practical Korean text, making it a typographically valid but lexically uncommon component of the Hangul repertoire.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C9F6 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjap |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 짶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 짶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA7 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC9F6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C9F6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc9f6 |