U+C77D "읽" Hangul Syllable Ilg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
읽
U+C77D "읽" Hangul Syllable Ilg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul orthography, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant ㅇ (silent in syllable-initial position), the vowel ㅣ (i), and the final consonant ㄺ (lg). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which encodes complete syllables rather than the individual jamo components, enabling efficient text processing for the Korean writing system. In Korean, "읽" functions as a syllable block that can form part of words such as "읽다" (to read), though it typically appears in conjugated verb forms rather than as an isolated morpheme.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C77D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ilg |
| 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 "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 읽 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 읽 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9D 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC77D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C77D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc77d |