Hangul syllable yud

It writes one spoken syllable; its Korean word meaning comes from context.

Hangul groups letters into blocks. 윧 joins three Korean letters, called jamo: ㅇ is silent at the start, ㅠ supplies the “yu” vowel, and final ㄷ closes with an unreleased t-like sound. Together they make a rough “yoot.” Unicode derives the construction name “Yud” from labels for these parts, rather than translating a Korean word.

Hangul was devised under King Sejong in Joseon, the Korean kingdom at the time, in 1443 so Korean could be written more directly than with the Chinese characters then used to write it. It was first called Hunminjeongeum (“proper sounds for instructing the people”); a book with that title was published in 1446 to explain the script’s purpose and design. Unicode’s 11,172 modern syllable blocks come from the Johab repertoire—a set of encoded Hangul syllables—in South Korea’s KS C 5601-1992 standard, which includes 윧.

How do I type and render 윧?

A Korean input method joins its letters into one block.

With Hangul input enabled, enter ㅇ, then ㅠ, then ㄷ; the IME combines them as 윧.

Unicode can also represent the same syllable as the three position-specific Hangul letters 윧. Fonts may draw the block with different stroke weight or spacing, but the encoded syllable stays the same.