U+C620 "옠" Hangul Syllable Yek Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
옠
U+C620 "옠" Hangul Syllable Yek is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "yek." This character is formed by combining the initial consonant "ᅌ" (which in modern Korean is actually a placeholder for no initial sound, though historically it represented a velar nasal) or more accurately in this case, the modern initial "ㅇ" (a zero consonant) with the medial vowel "ㅖ" (ye) and the final consonant "ㅋ" (k). It is part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable combinations in the standard Korean alphabet, and is used in various Korean words and names to convey a single, distinct syllable within the language's orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C620 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yek |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 옠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 옠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x98 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC620 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C620 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc620 |