U+C60D "옍" Hangul Syllable Yenj Unicode Character
U+C60D "옍" Hangul Syllable Yenj is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used in the Korean language to represent the sound "yenj". This specific syllable is formed through the standard Hangul orthographic process of combining an initial consonant, a medial vowel, and a final consonant, where "옍" is composed of the initial consonant "ㅇ" (a silent placeholder or ng sound), the medial vowel "ㅖ" (pronounced "ye"), and the final consonant "ㄵ" (a complex cluster pronounced "nj"). While such syllables are less common in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, they are systematically encoded in Unicode as part of the comprehensive Hangul Syllables block, which covers all 11,172 possible valid combinations of Hangul jamo to facilitate accurate digital text processing and typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C60D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yenj |
| 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 "ᆬ" U+11AC Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 옍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 옍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x98 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC60D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C60D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc60d |