U+C774 "이" Hangul Syllable I Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
이
U+C774 "이" Hangul Syllable I is a modern Korean syllabic character representing the sound "i" and is composed of the Hangul letter ㅇ (ieung) as an initial consonant that is silent in initial position, combined with the vowel ㅣ (i). It is one of the many syllabic blocks encoded in the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which systematically covers all possible combinations of Hangul consonants and vowels. This specific character is commonly used in the Korean language, appearing in words like "이것" (igeot) meaning "this" and as a grammatical particle indicating the subject of a sentence, making it an essential component of written Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C774 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable I |
| 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 "ᅵ" U+1175 Hangul Jungseong I |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 이 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 이 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9D 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC774 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C774 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc774 |