U+C63A "옺" Hangul Syllable Oj Unicode Character
U+C63A "옺" Hangul Syllable Oj is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅇ” (a silent or glottal placeholder), the medial vowel “ㅗ” (the mid-back rounded vowel “o”), and the final consonant “ㅈ” (the lenis affricate “j”). As part of the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), this glyph is encoded as a single code point to facilitate text processing and rendering, adhering to the standard Unicode model that maps each valid syllable of the Korean alphabet to a unique character. While not commonly encountered in everyday Korean text, it serves as a formal linguistic representation for specific phonetic sequences within the orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C63A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Oj |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 옺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 옺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x98 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC63A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C63A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc63a |