U+CC09 "찉" Hangul Syllable Jjyit Unicode Character
U+CC09 "찉" Hangul Syllable Jjyit is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “jj” (a double "j" or voiced alveolo-palatal affricate), the vowel “yi” (a rare or historical vowel sound close to a high front rounded vowel), and the final consonant “t” (an unreleased stop). This syllable is extremely uncommon in contemporary Korean, primarily appearing in specialized linguistic contexts or historical transcriptions, and its specific sound may be more theoretical than practically used in everyday speech. The character is encoded in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which was added to standardize the thousands of possible Hangul syllable combinations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CC09 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjyit |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쯰" U+CBF0 Hangul Syllable Jjyi "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 찉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 찉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB0 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCC09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CC09 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucc09 |