U+C552 "앒" Hangul Syllable Alp Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
앒
U+C552 "앒" Hangul Syllable Alp is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "alp" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅇ (silent or null initial), the vowel ㅏ (a), and the final consonant cluster ㅍ (p) which forms the syllable's coda. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes a comprehensive set of 11,172 precomposed syllables that can be generated from the Korean alphabet. As a closed syllable ending with a double consonant, "앒" demonstrates how Hangul efficiently packages phonetic components into a single square block, though it is an uncommon character rarely used in everyday Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C552 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Alp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 앒 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 앒 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x95 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC552 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C552 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc552 |