U+C61A "옚" Hangul Syllable Yebs Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
옚
U+C61A "옚" Hangul Syllable Yebs is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul syllabary used to write the Korean language. It represents the phonetic block "yebs," composed of the initial consonant 'ㅇ' (a silent placeholder in this position), the medial vowel 'ㅖ' (ye), and the final consonant cluster 'ㅄ' (bs). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables arranged in a standard order based on the Korean alphabet's consonant and vowel combinations. The syllable "옚" is relatively rare in everyday Korean vocabulary and is primarily encountered in more specialized or historic linguistic contexts, as it requires a specific phonetic condition to appear.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C61A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yebs |
| 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 "ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 옚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 옚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x98 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC61A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C61A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc61a |