U+C696 "욖" Hangul Syllable Yogg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C696 "욖" Hangul Syllable Yogg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "yogg" (여그) formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅇ" (ieung, a silent placeholder), the medial vowel "ㅛ" (yo), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is encoded for use in digital text to accurately represent the specific phonetic syllable of the Korean language, though it is relatively rare in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, appearing more often in historical or specialized contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+C696
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Yogg
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "요" U+C694 Hangul Syllable Yo
"ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 욖
HTML Hex Encoding 욖
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x9A 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC696
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C696
C/C++/Java Escape \uc696

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter