U+C74B "읋" Hangul Syllable Eulh Unicode Character
U+C74B "읋" Hangul Syllable Eulh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "eulh." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅇ (a silent placeholder or null initial in Korean phonology), the medial vowel ㅡ (eu), and the final consonant ㅀ (a digraph of ㅣ and ㅎ, pronounced as a tense or aspirated "l" sound at the end of a syllable). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode standard, which encodes all 11,172 possible modern Korean syllable combinations in a single, precomposed form for efficient text processing and rendering. It is used exclusively in the Korean language, typically appearing in formal texts, dictionaries, or older literature where the syllable "eulh" might occur in verb conjugations or specialized vocabulary, though it is quite rare in everyday contemporary writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C74B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Eulh |
| 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 "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 읋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 읋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9D 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC74B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C74B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc74b |