U+C745 "읅" Hangul Syllable Eulg Unicode Character
U+C745 "읅" Hangul Syllable Eulg is a specific syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅇ" (a silent placeholder or the "ng" sound in final position), the medial vowel "ㅡ" (eu), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (l), resulting in the sound "eul" with the final "g" pronounced as a tense or reinforced stop due to the lack of a distinct final consonant in the syllable bloc. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes precomposed syllables to facilitate text processing and display. While it is a valid and defined syllable, "읅" is uncommon in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, appearing rarely in specialized contexts or historical texts rather than in common words. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures consistent representation across digital platforms and languages for scholarly or archival purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C745 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Eulg |
| 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 "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 읅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 읅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9D 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC745 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C745 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc745 |