U+C68F "욏" Hangul Syllable Oec Unicode Character
U+C68F "욏" Hangul Syllable Oec is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul writing system, representing a phonetic block formed from the initial consonant ㅇ (a placeholder for a vowel-initial sound), the medial vowel ㅚ (a monophthong romanized as "oe"), and the final consonant ᆮ (an obsolete or rare final consonant representing a "t" or "d" sound). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables Unicode block, which encodes over 11,000 possible combinations of Korean letters for modern and historical text processing. The character "욏" is considered a valid but highly infrequent syllable, primarily encountered in specialized linguistic contexts or older Korean texts rather than in contemporary usage. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital systems can accurately represent all logically possible Hangul syllables, including those that are archaic or rarely used.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C68F |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Oec |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 욏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 욏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9A 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC68F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C68F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc68f |