U+C636 "옶" Hangul Syllable Obs Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
옶
U+C636 "옶" Hangul Syllable Obs is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "Obs", formed from the initial consonant ㅇ (a null or silent onset), the medial vowel ㅗ (o), and the final consonant cluster ㅄ (bs). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo letters into single code points for efficient text processing. While not as common as simpler syllables, it may appear in specialized or historical Korean vocabulary, reflecting the language's ability to form complex syllable blocks with double final consonants.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C636 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Obs |
| 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 "ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 옶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 옶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x98 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC636 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C636 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc636 |