U+C2DD "식" Hangul Syllable Sig Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
식
U+C2DD "식" Hangul Syllable Sig is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "sik" as spoken in the South Korean standard. This character is formed from an initial consonant letter ㅅ (siot), a medial vowel ㅣ (i), and a final consonant letter ㄱ (giyeok), combined into a single codepoint to facilitate efficient text processing and display. It is used in a variety of Korean words, such as "식사" (siksa, meaning meal) and "시간" (sigan, meaning time), and belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode Standard, which was designed to encode all possible Korean syllable blocks in a systematic, predictable manner.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C2DD |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Sig |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "시" U+C2DC Hangul Syllable Si "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 식 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 식 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x8B 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC2DD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C2DD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc2dd |