U+C78C "잌" Hangul Syllable Ik Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
잌
U+C78C "잌" Hangul Syllable Ik is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant ㅇ (a silent placeholder) and the vowel ㅣ (i) followed by the final consonant ᆨ (k), resulting in the sound "ik." It is part of the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), which was encoded in Unicode 2.0 to support efficient text processing by providing individual code points for each of the 11,172 possible syllable blocks in the Korean script. While this specific syllable is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, it exists within the full set of theoretical hangul combinations and may appear in technical contexts, older texts, or names.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C78C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ik |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 잌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 잌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9E 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC78C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C78C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc78c |