U+C716 "윖" Hangul Syllable Wibs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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