U+C716 "윖" Hangul Syllable Wibs Unicode Character
U+C716 "윖" Hangul Syllable Wibs is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅇ" (ieung, a placeholder for a vowel-initial sound), the medial vowel "ㅟ" (wi), and the final consonant "ㅂ" (bieup) and "ㅅ" (siot) as a compound final, yielding the sound "wibs." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllabic blocks formed from the Korean alphabet, and it follows the standard Unicode ordering based on the Hangul syllabic decomposition algorithm. As a specific, rarely used syllable in modern Korean, "윖" may appear in specialized vocabulary, historical texts, or phonetic transcriptions, but it is not common in everyday contemporary writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C716 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Wibs |
| 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 "ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 윖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 윖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9C 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC716 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C716 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc716 |