U+C55E "앞" Hangul Syllable Ap Unicode Character
U+C55E "앞" Hangul Syllable Ap is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ap" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅇ (a placeholder that is silent when initial, but here it effectively acts as a null onset) and the final consonant ㅍ (p), with the vowel ㅏ (a) in the middle. This syllable is a common Korean word meaning "front" or "ahead," and it is frequently used in everyday language, such as in phrases like "앞에" (ape, meaning "in front of") and compound words like "앞문" (apmun, front door). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is encoded for digital text representation and ensures that Korean characters can be consistently displayed and processed across different systems and platforms without requiring manual composition of its constituent jamo letters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C55E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ap |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 앞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 앞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x95 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC55E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C55E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc55e |