U+C73C "으" Hangul Syllable Eu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
으
U+C73C "으" Hangul Syllable Eu is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "eu" as in the English word "book" but with unrounded lips. This specific syllable is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung), which is silent, with the medial vowel ㅡ (eu), creating a single, indivisible character used in many Korean words and grammatical particles. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it follows the standard encoding model for the Korean script, where each syllable is assigned a unique codepoint to facilitate digital text processing and rendering.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C73C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Eu |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄋ" U+110B Hangul Choseong Ieung "ᅳ" U+1173 Hangul Jungseong Eu |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 으 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 으 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9C 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC73C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C73C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc73c |