U+C76F "읯" Hangul Syllable Yic Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
읯
U+C76F "읯" Hangul Syllable Yic is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used to write the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅇ” (silent/null), the medial vowel “ㅣ” (i), and the final consonant “ᆿ” (k), resulting in the syllable pronounced approximately as “ik” or “yik” depending on context. As part of the Hangul Syllables block, this character is encoded as a single code point to facilitate efficient text processing and display, reflecting the systematic structure of the Korean writing system where consonants and vowels are combined into syllabic blocks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C76F |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yic |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 읯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 읯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9D 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC76F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C76F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc76f |