U+C70D "윍" Hangul Syllable Wilg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C70D "윍" Hangul Syllable Wilg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul block, representing the Korean sound combination of initial consonant "w" (from the Glide "wa" in some analyses, but technically a "wi" or "we" like onset), the vowel "i", and the final consonant "lg" which is the digraph "ㄺ" pronounced as a velar lateral or simply "lg" in standard Korean phonology. This specific syllable is rarely used in modern Korean vocabulary, as it primarily appears in specialized linguistic contexts or historical texts rather than everyday speech, and its existence underscores the systematic nature of the Hangul writing system, which allows for the formal encoding of all possible syllable combinations in the Unicode Standard.

General Properties

Code Point U+C70D
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Wilg
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
"ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 윍
HTML Hex Encoding 윍
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x9C 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC70D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C70D
C/C++/Java Escape \uc70d

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter