U+C6A5 "욥" Hangul Syllable Yob Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
욥
U+C6A5 "욥" Hangul Syllable Yob is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, formed from the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, which is silent in this initial position), the medial vowel ㅛ (yo), and the final consonant ㅂ (bieup). It represents the sound "yob" and is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which was encoded in Unicode to allow efficient representation of the thousands of possible syllable combinations in Korean. While not a high frequency character in everyday Korean vocabulary, it can occur in transliterations or specific words, and its structural composition follows the standard left to right and top to bottom layout of Hangul blocks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C6A5 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yob |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 욥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 욥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9A 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC6A5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C6A5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc6a5 |