U+C554 "암" Hangul Syllable Am Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
암
U+C554 "암" Hangul Syllable Am is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "am." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅇ (silent placeholder or ng sound at the syllable start) and the vowel ㅏ (a), followed by the final consonant ㅁ (m), which together create a single, indivisible character block. This syllable appears in common Korean words such as "암" meaning "cancer" or "암컷" meaning "female animal," and it is encoded in Unicode's Hangul Syllables block, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables arranged in a systematic order based on the South Korean collation sequence.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C554 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Am |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 암 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 암 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x95 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC554 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C554 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc554 |