U+CC1C "찜" Hangul Syllable Jjim Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
찜
U+CC1C "찜" Hangul Syllable Jjim is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "jjim." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅉ" (jj) with the vowel "ㅣ" (i) and the final consonant "ㅁ" (m), and it is widely used in the Korean language to mean "steamed" or "a steamed dish," such as in the popular Korean dish "찜닭" (jjimdak) or "찐빵" (jjinppang). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of Korean letters for efficient text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CC1C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjim |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "찌" U+CC0C Hangul Syllable Jji "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 찜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 찜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB0 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCC1C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CC1C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucc1c |