U+C71B "윛" Hangul Syllable Wic Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
윛
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 |