U+C551 "앑" Hangul Syllable Alt Unicode Character
U+C551 "앑" Hangul Syllable Alt is a specific precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅇ" (silent/ng), the vowel "ㅏ" (a), and the final consonants "ㅂ" (b) and "ㅅ" (s), resulting in the sound "aps" or "apss." As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is used in written Korean to represent a complete syllable unit, often appearing in words or names where this particular sound and form are required, such as in the Korean word for a kind of glue or adhesive. This character simplifies digital text processing by providing a single code point for the entire syllable, rather than requiring individual jamo (letter) components to be combined dynamically.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C551 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Alt |
| 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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 앑 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 앑 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x95 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC551 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C551 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc551 |