U+C741 "읁" Hangul Syllable Eunj Unicode Character
U+C741 "읁" Hangul Syllable Eunj is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "eunj" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, which is silent in initial position), the medial vowel ㅢ (ui), and the final consonant ㄴ (nieun). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which was encoded in Unicode to support the systematic arrangement of all possible syllable blocks in the Korean writing system, enabling efficient text representation without requiring dynamic composition of individual jamo letters. In modern usage, "읁" is a rare or archaic syllable, as the vowel ㅢ is often pronounced as ㅣ in certain contexts, and such specific combinations may appear primarily in historical texts or specialized linguistic notations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C741 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Eunj |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "으" U+C73C Hangul Syllable Eu "ᆬ" U+11AC Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 읁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 읁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9D 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC741 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C741 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc741 |