U+C6A4 "욤" Hangul Syllable Yom Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
욤
U+C6A4 "욤" Hangul Syllable Yom is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "yom" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅇ (a silent placeholder or the ng sound when final) and the vowel ㅛ (yo) followed by the final consonant ㅁ (m). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes all possible combinations of Korean letters as single encoded characters for efficient text processing. In common usage, this syllable appears in Korean vocabulary such as the word "욤욤" (yomnyom), which can refer to a deity in the Korean shamanistic tradition, or in the term "욤키푸르" (Yom Kippur), the transliteration of the Jewish holy day of atonement.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C6A4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yom |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 욤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 욤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9A 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC6A4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C6A4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc6a4 |