U+C609 "옉" Hangul Syllable Yeg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
옉
U+C609 "옉" Hangul Syllable Yeg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅇ" (ieung, which is silent when at the start of a syllable), the vowel "ㅖ" (ye), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok). This syllable does not correspond to a common Korean word in standard usage, but it is part of the vast set of Hangul syllables encoded in Unicode to enable accurate digital representation of the Korean language, where each syllable block is assigned a distinct code point. Its inclusion ensures that any valid combination of jamo, the individual Korean letters, can be typed and displayed correctly, supporting both historical and linguistic completeness in text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C609 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yeg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "예" U+C608 Hangul Syllable Ye "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 옉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 옉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x98 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC609 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C609 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc609 |