U+C786 "잆" Hangul Syllable Ibs Unicode Character
U+C786 "잆" Hangul Syllable Ibs is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant ㅇ (a silent placeholder in the initial position, though the syllable is pronounced with the final consonant sound), the vowel ㅣ (i), and the final consonant cluster ㅄ (bs), resulting in the sound "ips" or "ibs." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean writing system using a modern, standard ordering. While the syllable "잆" is not common in contemporary Korean vocabulary, it exists as a valid, precomposed form within the Unicode standard's comprehensive coverage of the 11,172 possible modern Hangul syllables, allowing for consistent text representation, rendering, and processing in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C786 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ibs |
| 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 "ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 잆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 잆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9E 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC786 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C786 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc786 |