U+C6A5 "욥" Hangul Syllable Yob Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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