U+C620 "옠" Hangul Syllable Yek Unicode Character

U+C620 "옠" Hangul Syllable Yek is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "yek." This character is formed by combining the initial consonant "ᅌ" (which in modern Korean is actually a placeholder for no initial sound, though historically it represented a velar nasal) or more accurately in this case, the modern initial "ㅇ" (a zero consonant) with the medial vowel "ㅖ" (ye) and the final consonant "ㅋ" (k). It is part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable combinations in the standard Korean alphabet, and is used in various Korean words and names to convey a single, distinct syllable within the language's orthography.