U+C639 "옹" Hangul Syllable Ong Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
옹
U+C639 "옹" Hangul Syllable Ong is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ong." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, which is silent in this initial position), the vowel ㅗ (o), and the final consonant ㅇ (ieung, pronounced as the velar nasal "ng"). As a member of the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), it is one of 11,172 syllables encoded in Unicode to facilitate digital representation of the Korean language. This character is commonly used in modern Korean vocabulary and requires a single code point for efficient storage and display in text processing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C639 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ong |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 옹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 옹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x98 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC639 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C639 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc639 |