U+C721 "육" Hangul Syllable Yug Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
육
U+C721 "육" Hangul Syllable Yug is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system, representing the sound "yug" as used in the Korean language. It is formed from the initial consonant ㅇ (which is silent when at the beginning of a syllable), the medial vowel ㅠ (yu), and the final consonant ㄱ (g), all combined into a single character block. This syllable appears in various Korean words, such as "육" meaning the number six or "meat," and is part of the Unicode standard’s comprehensive block for Hangul syllables, which includes all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants in a logically ordered sequence.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C721 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yug |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "유" U+C720 Hangul Syllable Yu "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 육 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 육 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9C 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC721 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C721 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc721 |