U+C688 "욈" Hangul Syllable Oem Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
욈
U+C688 "욈" Hangul Syllable Oem is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, which is silent in initial position), the medial vowel ㅚ (oe, representing a monophthong sound), and the final consonant ㅁ (mieum, pronounced like the English "m"). This syllable does not correspond to a common standalone word in standard Korean vocabulary but may appear as part of larger compound words or in historical or technical contexts. It is encoded in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which covers over 11,000 precomposed syllable characters used for representing Korean text efficiently in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C688 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Oem |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 욈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 욈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9A 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC688 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C688 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc688 |