U+C552 "앒" Hangul Syllable Alp Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter