U+C638 "옸" Hangul Syllable Oss Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
옸
U+C638 "옸" Hangul Syllable Oss is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "oss." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, a silent placeholder), the medial vowel ㅗ (o), and the final consonant cluster ㅆ (ssang shiot, double ss), resulting in a syllable that is used in formal and informal Korean orthography. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables arranged in Unicode order based on the standard Korean collation sequence of initials, vowels, and finals.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C638 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Oss |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 옸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 옸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x98 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC638 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C638 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc638 |