U+C63B "옻" Hangul Syllable Oc Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
옻
U+C63B "옻" Hangul Syllable Oc is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "oc" as it appears in the Korean writing system. Specifically, it is a compound of the initial consonant ㅇ (a silent placeholder in syllable-initial position), the vowel ㅗ (o), and the final consonant ㅊ (ch), which together produce the phonetic value [ot̚] due to Korean pronunciation rules. This character is used in standard Korean vocabulary, such as in the word "옻" meaning "lacquer" or "lacquer tree," and it belongs to the Hangul Syllables block (AC00-D7AF) within the Unicode Standard, which encompasses all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C63B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Oc |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 옻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 옻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x98 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC63B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C63B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc63b |