U+C622 "옢" Hangul Syllable Yep Unicode Character
U+C622 "옢" Hangul Syllable Yep is a specific precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the Korean phonetic combination of the initial consonant "이" (a placeholder for the vowel-initial sound 'y'), the medial vowel "ㅔ" (pronounced 'e' as in "bed"), and the final consonant "ㅂ" (a bilabial 'p' sound). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block within Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet in a systematic order. While "옢" is a valid and standardized syllable in the Korean writing system, it is considered a rare or archaic form in contemporary Korean, as the combination of sounds it represents does not commonly appear in modern vocabulary. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that historical texts, linguistic studies, or specialized applications can accurately represent and process this syllabic form without relying on dynamic character composition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C622 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yep |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 옢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 옢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x98 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC622 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C622 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc622 |