U+C789 "잉" Hangul Syllable Ing Unicode Character
U+C789 "잉" Hangul Syllable Ing is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ing" as a single character. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung) with the medial vowel ㅣ (i) and the final consonant ㅇ (ieung), producing a syllable that is phonetically equivalent to the English "-ing" ending. In Korean, 잉 is commonly used in onomatopoeic expressions, such as the buzzing sound of an insect, and appears in various words and contexts, including the informal exclamation "잉?" to express confusion or disbelief. This character is encoded in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables to facilitate efficient digital text processing for the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C789 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ing |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 잉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 잉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9E 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC789 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C789 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc789 |