U+C706 "윆" Hangul Syllable Wigg Unicode Character
U+C706 "윆" Hangul Syllable Wigg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the consonant "ㅇ" (a silent initial or /ŋ/ in final position), the vowel "ㅟ" (wi), and the final consonant "ㄺ" (lg). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible valid syllable combinations in Korean, and is used to write the Korean language, particularly for transliterating foreign words or in specific lexical contexts such as the Korean word "윆다" (wiggda), meaning "to be concentrated or dense." This character illustrates the systematic nature of Hangul, where individual jamo (letters) are combined into syllabic blocks to represent the sounds of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C706 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Wigg |
| 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 "ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 윆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 윆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9C 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC706 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C706 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc706 |