U+C54C "알" Hangul Syllable Al Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
알
U+C54C "알" Hangul Syllable Al is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system Hangul, representing the sound "al". It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅇ" (which is silent when at the start of a syllable), the vowel "ㅏ" (a), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (l). In Korean, this syllable is a common word meaning "egg," "know," or "pill," depending on context, and it appears frequently in everyday language, such as in "달걀" (egg) or "알다" (to know). As part of the Unicode Standard, it resides in the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of initial, medial, and final jamo characters, enabling accurate digital representation of Korean text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C54C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Al |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "아" U+C544 Hangul Syllable A "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 알 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 알 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x95 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC54C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C54C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc54c |