U+C559 "앙" Hangul Syllable Ang Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
앙
U+C559 "앙" Hangul Syllable Ang is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ang" and formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅇ" (ieung) with the vowel "ㅏ" (a) and the final consonant "ㅇ" (ieung) as the batchim. It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes 11,172 precomposed syllables to facilitate efficient text processing for the Korean language. In Korean, "앙" can appear in words such as "앙상블" (ang-sang-beul, meaning ensemble) or "앙코르" (ang-ko-reu, meaning encore), and its pronunciation features a nasalized vowel sound that is distinct in Korean phonology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C559 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ang |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 앙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 앙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x95 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC559 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C559 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc559 |