U+C607 "옇" Hangul Syllable Yeoh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
옇
U+C607 "옇" Hangul Syllable Yeoh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅇ” (a silent placeholder or a glottal sound), the medial vowel “ㅕ” (yeo), and the final consonant “ㅎ” (h). This character forms a single syllable block that is pronounced as “yeoh” in the Revised Romanization of Korean. It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was encoded to efficiently represent the 11,172 possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C607 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yeoh |
| 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 "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 옇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 옇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x98 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC607 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C607 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc607 |