U+C600 "였" Hangul Syllable Yeoss Unicode Character
U+C600 "였" Hangul Syllable Yeoss is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "yeoss," formed from a combination of the initial consonant "ㅇ" (which is silent in initial position but indicates vowel onset), the medial vowel "ㅕ" (yeo), and the final consonant "ㅆ" (ss), a double consonant. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all modern Korean syllabic blocks using the principle of initial, medial, and final components. In Korean writing, "였" appears in words and verb conjugations, such as in the past tense form "였어요" (yeosseoyo, meaning "was" or "were"), and it is used in formal or literary contexts to denote a completed action or state in the past. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation and processing of Korean text across different platforms and systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C600 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yeoss |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "여" U+C5EC Hangul Syllable Yeo "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 였 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 였 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x98 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC600 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C600 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc600 |