U+C74C "음" Hangul Syllable Eum Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
음
U+C74C "음" Hangul Syllable Eum is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "eum." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, silent here as a placeholder), the medial vowel ㅡ (eu), and the final consonant ㅁ (mieum), making it a single encoded character for efficient text processing. This syllable appears in many common Korean words, such as 음악 (eumak) meaning "music" and 음식 (eumsik) meaning "food," and is included in the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode Standard, which encodes all 11,172 possible modern Korean syllable blocks. Its standardized encoding ensures consistent display and interchange across different digital platforms and languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C74C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Eum |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 음 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 음 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9D 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC74C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C74C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc74c |