U+C604 "옄" Hangul Syllable Yeok Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
옄
U+C604 "옄" Hangul Syllable Yeok is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "yeok" as a combination of the initial consonant "ㅇ" (ieung, which is silent in Modern Korean), the medial vowel "ㅕ" (yeo), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok). It is encoded in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which organizes all modern and some archaic Korean syllables systematically using a mathematical algorithm based on initial, medial, and final jamo components. This specific syllable is not among the most frequently used in contemporary Korean, but it appears in certain compound words, loanword transcriptions, and historical contexts, functioning as a standard block for representing Korean text in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C604 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yeok |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 옄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 옄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x98 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC604 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C604 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc604 |