U+C60A "옊" Hangul Syllable Yegg Unicode Character
U+C60A "옊" Hangul Syllable Yegg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "yegg." This character is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (which is silent at the start of a syllable), the medial vowel ㅖ (a diphthong pronounced like "ye" in English "yes"), and the final consonant ㄱ (a velar stop sounding like "g" or "k"). It was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Hangul Syllables block, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables arranged in alphabetical order according to the traditional Korean collation sequence. This particular syllable is used in written Korean to represent a valid but relatively uncommon sound combination, primarily appearing in specific words or transcriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C60A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yegg |
| 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 "ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 옊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 옊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x98 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC60A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C60A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc60a |