U+C758 "의" Hangul Syllable Yi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+C758 "의" Hangul Syllable Yi is a precomposed Hangeul syllable representing a single Korean phonetic unit, specifically combining the consonant "ㅇ" (ieung) with the vowel "ㅢ" (ui) to form the sound "yi" or "ui" in modern Korean usage. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible two and three letter combinations of Korean jamo (letters) into single code points for efficient text processing and display. In practice, "의" holds particular significance in Korean grammar as a possessive particle equivalent to the English apostrophe "s" or preposition "of", and it also appears in words like "의사" (doctor) and "의자" (chair), making it a frequently used syllable in written Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C758 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yi |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄋ" U+110B Hangul Choseong Ieung "ᅴ" U+1174 Hangul Jungseong Yi |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 의 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 의 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9D 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC758 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C758 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc758 |