U+C708 "윈" Hangul Syllable Win Unicode Character
U+C708 "윈" Hangul Syllable Win is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "win", formed from the initial consonant ㅇ (a placeholder for no sound or a silent initial in modern Korean, though it denotes the sound /w/ in this syllable when combined) and the medial vowel ㅟ (wi), followed by the final consonant ㄴ (n). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters in a single character to facilitate efficient text processing. In practical usage, "윈" is commonly found in Korean words such as "윈도우" (Windows), referring to the Microsoft operating system, and in compound terms like "윈드서핑" (windsurfing), demonstrating its role in transliterating foreign words into Korean script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C708 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Win |
| 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 "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 윈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 윈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9C 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC708 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C708 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc708 |