U+C755 "읕" Hangul Syllable Eut Unicode Character
U+C755 "읕" Hangul Syllable Eut is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "eut." It combines the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, which is silent in initial position), the medial vowel ㅡ (eu), and the final consonant ㅌ (tieut), forming a single, fully formed character used in the orthography of the Korean language. This character follows the standard syllable block structure of Hangul and is part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible valid combinations of Korean letters systematically allocated in the Unicode standard. Primarily used in the writing of Korean text, it appears in vocabulary and proper nouns, though it is not among the most frequently encountered syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C755 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Eut |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 읕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 읕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9D 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC755 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C755 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc755 |