U+C68C "욌" Hangul Syllable Oess Unicode Character
U+C68C "욌" Hangul Syllable Oess is a precomposed syllable representing the sound "wess" or "oess" in the Korean writing system, Hangul. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, a silent placeholder when at the start of a syllable), the medial vowel ㅚ (oe), and the final consonant ㅆ (ssangshiut, a double s). This syllable belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables encoding all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants as defined in modern Korean orthography. While rare or archaic in contemporary usage, "욌" is part of the complete set of syllables standardized for digital text representation, allowing correct display and processing of historical or specialized Korean language content.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C68C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Oess |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 욌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 욌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9A 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC68C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C68C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc68c |