U+C60E "옎" Hangul Syllable Yenh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
옎
U+C60E "옎" Hangul Syllable Yenh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic value "yenh." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, which is silent in this position), the medial vowel ㅒ (yae), and the final consonant ㄴ (nieun), resulting in a syllable that does not commonly appear in everyday Korean vocabulary and is mostly encountered in specialized linguistic contexts or historical orthography. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet, and its inclusion ensures precise digital representation of the script's systematic syllabic structure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C60E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yenh |
| 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 "ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 옎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 옎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x98 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC60E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C60E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc60e |