U+C9F7 "짷" Hangul Syllable Jjah Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
짷
U+C9F7 "짷" Hangul Syllable Jjah is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents a single phonetic syllable formed from the initial consonant j, the vowel a, and the final consonant h, combining the Hanja-derived alphabetic jamo into one encoded glyph. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which was introduced in Unicode version 2.0 to efficiently encode all possible syllabic combinations of Korean letters. As a result, it allows digital systems to display and process Korean text as complete syllables rather than requiring dynamic composition of individual jamo, which improves rendering speed and text handling in applications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C9F7 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjah |
| 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 "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 짷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 짷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA7 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC9F7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C9F7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc9f7 |