U+C759 "읙" Hangul Syllable Yig Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
읙
U+C759 "읙" Hangul Syllable Yig is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "yig" which combines the initial consonant ㅇ (a silent placeholder or the sound /ŋ/ in syllable-final position), the medial vowel ㅣ (pronounced like the 'ee' in "see"), and the final consonant ㄱ (pronounced as a velar stop /k̚/). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, encoded to support the efficient digital representation of the Korean writing system by providing a single codepoint for each of the 11,172 possible syllable combinations, thus enabling seamless text processing and display in Korean-language contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C759 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yig |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "의" U+C758 Hangul Syllable Yi "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 읙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 읙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9D 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC759 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C759 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc759 |