U+CC0B "찋" Hangul Syllable Jjyih Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CC0B "찋" Hangul Syllable Jjyih is a specific precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant 'jj' (a tense, affricate sound similar to the 'j' in "judge" but with a harder articulation), the vowel 'yi' (a rare or obsolete vowel in standard Korean, derived from the digraph ㅢ), and a final consonant 'h' (ㅎ). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block (AC00 D7AF) in Unicode, which encodes 11,172 precomposed syllables to facilitate efficient text processing. While "찋" is a valid Unicode character and can be typed or displayed, it does not correspond to a commonly used syllable in contemporary South or North Korean orthography, as the vowel 'yi' appears primarily in historical or technical linguistic contexts rather than everyday language.

General Properties

Code Point U+CC0B
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jjyih
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
"ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 찋
HTML Hex Encoding 찋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xB0 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCC0B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CC0B
C/C++/Java Escape \ucc0b

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