U+C63E "옾" Hangul Syllable Op Unicode Character
U+C63E "옾" Hangul Syllable Op is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the sound "op" as used in the Korean language. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (which is silent when placed at the beginning of a syllable) with the medial vowel ㅗ (o) and the final consonant ㅍ (p), all encoded together as a single character for efficient text processing. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables to support the complex syllabic structure of Korean writing. While "옾" is a valid and correctly formed syllable according to the rules of Hangul, it is not commonly used in standard Korean vocabulary and may appear in specialized or dialectal contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C63E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Op |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 옾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 옾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x98 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC63E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C63E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc63e |