U+C71F "윟" Hangul Syllable Wih Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
윟
U+C71F "윟" Hangul Syllable Wih is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script used for writing Korean. It represents the phonetic combination of the consonant "ㅇ" (ieung, silent in initial position) and the vowel "ㅟ" (wi), culminating in the final consonant "ㅎ" (hieut), thus producing the sound "wih." As part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, this character allows digital representation of this specific Korean syllable without needing to combine individual jamo characters. It is an example of the systematic encoding that supports over 11,000 preformed syllables in Unicode, facilitating efficient text processing and rendering for Korean language applications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C71F |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Wih |
| 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 "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 윟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 윟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9C 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC71F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C71F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc71f |