U+C775 "익" Hangul Syllable Ig Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
익
U+C775 "익" Hangul Syllable Ig is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ik" or "ig" depending on context. It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅇ" (ieung, which is silent in this position), the vowel "ㅣ" (i), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok). This character is located in the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible 11,172 syllable combinations in the Korean alphabet. In Korean, it appears as part of words like '''''' (igieo, meaning "strange" or "peculiar") and is commonly used in written and digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C775 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ig |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "이" U+C774 Hangul Syllable I "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 익 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 익 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9D 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC775 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C775 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc775 |