U+CC21 "찡" Hangul Syllable Jjing Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
찡
U+CC21 "찡" Hangul Syllable Jjing is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "jjing," formed from the initial consonant 'jj' (a tense sound akin to 'd' in English) and the vowel 'i' as in 'seen', with a final 'ng' consonant. It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which standardizes the thousands of possible syllable combinations in the Korean writing system by assigning a unique code point to each block-formed character. This particular syllable, 찡, is used in modern Korean vocabulary, often appearing in expressive or onomatopoeic words, such as 찡그리다 (jjinggeurida) meaning "to frown" or "to make a sour face," highlighting its role in conveying nuanced emotional or physical expressions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CC21 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjing |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 찡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 찡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB0 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCC21 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CC21 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucc21 |