U+C71D "윝" Hangul Syllable Wit Unicode Character
U+C71D "윝" Hangul Syllable Wit is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "wit" or "uit" depending on romanization conventions. It is formed from the initial consonant ㅇ (silent 'ieung'), the medial vowel ㅟ (a front rounded vowel roughly like the French 'u' or English 'wee'), and the final consonant ㅌ (tieut, producing a 't' stop). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block (AC00–D7AF) in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of initial, medial, and final jamo (letters) in the Korean alphabet. As a syllable, it would appear in Korean text to represent a morpheme or word element, though it is not commonly used in everyday vocabulary compared to more frequent syllables. Its encoding ensures consistent digital representation of the Korean script across platforms and applications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C71D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Wit |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 윝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 윝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9C 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC71D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C71D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc71d |