U+C742 "읂" Hangul Syllable Eunh Unicode Character
U+C742 "읂" Hangul Syllable Eunh is a specific precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant ㅇ (a silent placeholder), the medial vowel ㅡ (eu), and the final consonant ㄶ (nh). This syllable, while part of the standardized set of 11,172 possible Hangul syllables defined in Unicode for representing Korean text, is considered very rare and does not appear in common modern Korean vocabulary, functioning instead as a theoretical or historical linguistic form used primarily in specialized studies of phonology or historical orthography. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that any potentially necessary representation of this syllable in digital text remains faithfully encoded according to the structural principles of the Hangul script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C742 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Eunh |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "으" U+C73C Hangul Syllable Eu "ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 읂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 읂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9D 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC742 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C742 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc742 |