U+C634 "옴" Hangul Syllable Om Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
옴
U+C634 "옴" Hangul Syllable Om is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "om." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅇ (which is silent when placed at the beginning of a syllable), the medial vowel ㅗ (o), and the final consonant ㅁ (m), and is commonly used in Korean words such as "옴" (om), meaning "ohm" (the unit of electrical resistance) or appearing as part of longer compounds like "치옴" (chiom, a type of religious offering). As a character in the Unicode Standard, it belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean letters in a single code point for efficient text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C634 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Om |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 옴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 옴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x98 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC634 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C634 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc634 |