U+C9F8 "째" Hangul Syllable Jjae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
째
U+C9F8 "째" Hangul Syllable Jjae is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "jjae" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅉ (jj) and the vowel ㅐ (ae). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable blocks in the standard Korean alphabet. In written Korean, "째" is commonly used as a suffix to indicate ordinal numbers, such as 첫째 (first) or 둘째 (second), and also appears in words like 째 (meaning a sharp, grating sound or whine) or 째다 (to split or crack). Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation and typing across platforms, enabling accurate communication in the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C9F8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjae |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄍ" U+110D Hangul Choseong Ssangcieuc "ᅢ" U+1162 Hangul Jungseong Ae |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 째 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 째 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA7 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC9F8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C9F8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc9f8 |