U+C705 "윅" Hangul Syllable Wig Unicode Character
U+C705 "윅" Hangul Syllable Wig is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of a consonant "ㅇ" (ieung), the vowel "ㅟ" (wi), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok). This character, pronounced roughly as "wig" in English, is part of the Hangul Syllables block within Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet’s jamo components. While it is a valid and properly formed syllable according to Korean orthography, its actual usage in contemporary Korean vocabulary is quite rare, as it does not commonly appear in everyday words or standard dictionaries, serving instead as a testament to the systematic completeness of Unicode’s coverage of the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C705 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Wig |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "위" U+C704 Hangul Syllable Wi "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 윅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 윅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9C 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC705 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C705 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc705 |