U+C717 "윗" Hangul Syllable Wis Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
윗
U+C717 "윗" Hangul Syllable Wis is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "wis" or "wit" as it is conventionally romanized. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung), the vowel ㅟ (wi), and the final consonant ㅅ (siot), and it appears in modern Korean as a standalone character used in words such as "윗옷" (witot, meaning an upper garment) or "윗사람" (witsaram, meaning a superior or elder). In the Unicode standard, this character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible precomposed syllables for the modern Korean alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C717 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Wis |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 윗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 윗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9C 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC717 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C717 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc717 |