U+C556 "앖" Hangul Syllable Abs Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
앖
U+C556 "앖" Hangul Syllable Abs is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, specifically representing the Korean phonetic syllable "abs." This character is formed from the initial consonant "ㅇ" (a placeholder or null sound in initial position), the vowel "ㅏ" (a), and the final consonant "ㅂ" (b), combined in a standard block structure as defined within the Hangul Syllables Unicode block. While it is a valid and encoded syllabic unit in the Korean writing system, it is not commonly used in modern Korean vocabulary and may appear primarily in specialized linguistic contexts, historical texts, or as a demonstration of the systematic composition of Hangul syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C556 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Abs |
| 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 "ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 앖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 앖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x95 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC556 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C556 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc556 |