U+C684 "욄" Hangul Syllable Oels Unicode Character
U+C684 "욄" Hangul Syllable Oels is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅇ" (a silent placeholder or the sound /ŋ/ in syllable-final position), the medial vowel "ㅚ" (pronounced like the "we" in "wet" in some dialects or a rounded front vowel /ø/), and the final consonant "ㄹㅅ" (a consonant cluster pronounced as /l/ followed by /t/ when released, resulting in a sound similar to "olts"). This character is part of the vast Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables formed by Korean jamo letters, and it is used in contexts requiring precise text rendering of the Korean language, such as in historical names or linguistic transcriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C684 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Oels |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "외" U+C678 Hangul Syllable Oe "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 욄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 욄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9A 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC684 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C684 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc684 |