U+C71A "윚" Hangul Syllable Wij Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C71A "윚" Hangul Syllable Wij is a specific precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (a placeholder for a null or silent onset), the medial vowel ㅟ (romanized "wi"), and the final consonant ㅈ (romanized "j"). As a precomposed syllable in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, it represents a single typographic unit that streamlines text processing and display. While it is a valid and defined character in the Unicode Standard, its practical usage in contemporary Korean is extremely rare or nonexistent, as it does not correspond to any common Korean word.

General Properties

Code Point U+C71A
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Wij
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
"ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 윚
HTML Hex Encoding 윚
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x9C 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC71A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C71A
C/C++/Java Escape \uc71a

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