U+C71B "윛" Hangul Syllable Wic Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C71B "윛" Hangul Syllable Wic is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅇ" (a silent placeholder), the medial vowel "ㅟ" (pronounced like "wi" or "wee"), and the final consonant "ㅊ" (pronounced as an aspirated "ch"). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables formed by the Korean alphabet in a systematic, precomposed order for efficient text processing. This specific syllable is rarely used in contemporary Korean vocabulary, but it exists as a valid orthographic unit within the standard Unicode repertoire, ensuring comprehensive support for the script.

General Properties

Code Point U+C71B
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Wic
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
"ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 윛
HTML Hex Encoding 윛
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x9C 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC71B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C71B
C/C++/Java Escape \uc71b

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