U+C55B "앛" Hangul Syllable Ac Unicode Character
U+C55B "앛" Hangul Syllable Ac is a specific precomposed syllable from the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅇ" (a silent placeholder or the sound /ŋ/ at syllable onset), the vowel "ㅏ" (pronounced /a/), and the final consonant "ㅊ" (pronounced /t̚/ in syllable-final position). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes over 11,000 precomposed Korean syllable blocks to facilitate efficient text processing and display. While "앛" is a valid syllable in the Korean orthographic inventory, it is rarely used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, as its sound combination does not commonly occur in native or Sino-Korean words, making it more of a theoretical or infrequently encountered glyph within the Unicode standard.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C55B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ac |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 앛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 앛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x95 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC55B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C55B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc55b |