U+C62C "올" Hangul Syllable Ol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
올
U+C62C "올" Hangul Syllable Ol is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "ol" as in the English word "old." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, which is silent in this position) and the medial vowel ㅗ (o), followed by the final consonant ㄹ (rieul). This character is encoded as a single codepoint in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables to facilitate efficient text processing for the Korean language. As an essential building block of written Korean, "올" appears in various common words, such as 올해 (meaning "this year") and 올라가다 (meaning "to go up").
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C62C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ol |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "오" U+C624 Hangul Syllable O "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 올 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 올 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x98 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC62C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C62C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc62c |