U+C603 "옃" Hangul Syllable Yeoc Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
옃
U+C603 "옃" Hangul Syllable Yeoc is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the sound "yeoc". It is formed by combining the initial consonant "이응" (ㅇ), the medial vowel "여" (yeo), and the final consonant "지읒" (ㅈ), which together create a syllable that exists in the Korean language's phonological system but is not commonly used in everyday vocabulary. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode and is encoded as a single codepoint to facilitate the efficient representation of Korean text, following the standard Unicode Hangul syllable formation algorithm that organizes syllables in a systematic order based on their initial, medial, and final components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C603 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yeoc |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 옃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 옃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x98 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC603 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C603 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc603 |