U+C685 "욅" Hangul Syllable Oelt Unicode Character
U+C685 "욅" Hangul Syllable Oelt is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing a specific phonetic combination of the leading consonant "ㅇ" (a placeholder for a vowel sound), the diphthong vowel "ㅚ" (pronounced like "oe" or "we"), and the final consonant "ㄹㅌ" (the compound final "lt"), rendering the sound [oelt]. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of Korean jamo characters in a single coded form for efficient digital text processing and display. While such syllables are theoretically valid in the Hangul inventory, the sound "oelt" does not correspond to a commonly used word in standard Korean vocabulary and appears primarily as a typographic or encoding artifact rather than a frequently encountered lexical item.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C685 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Oelt |
| 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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 욅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 욅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9A 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC685 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C685 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc685 |