U+C76C "읬" Hangul Syllable Yiss Unicode Character
U+C76C "읬" Hangul Syllable Yiss is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "yiss," formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅇ" (a silent placeholder), the medial vowel "ㅣ" (romanized as "i"), and the final consonant "ㅆ" (a double "s" sound romanized as "ss"). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, a range of 11,172 precomposed syllables used to encode modern and historical Korean text. This specific syllable is relatively rare and may appear in specialized or archaic vocabulary, but it is valid for digital representation of Korean writing, ensuring compatibility across systems. As with other Hangul syllables, it supports the efficient encoding of Korean characters by allowing each syllable to be mapped to a single code point rather than requiring separate jamo combinations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C76C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yiss |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 읬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 읬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9D 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC76C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C76C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc76c |