U+C722 "윢" Hangul Syllable Yugg Unicode Character
U+C722 "윢" Hangul Syllable Yugg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "y" (as in the Korean letter ㅇ with a y sound), the medial vowel "u" (ㅜ), and the final consonant "gg" (ㄲ). Specifically, it is the syllable "yugg," where the double final consonant "gg" indicates a tense or reinforced pronunciation at the end of the syllable. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet according to the standard compositional rules of Hangul. While individual syllables like "윢" are rarely used in everyday Korean vocabulary, they exist to ensure full coverage of the writing system for linguistic accuracy and historical documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C722 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yugg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "유" U+C720 Hangul Syllable Yu "ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 윢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 윢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9C 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC722 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C722 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc722 |