U+C563 "앣" Hangul Syllable Aegs Unicode Character
U+C563 "앣" Hangul Syllable Aegs is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "aegs" and is formed from the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, silent in initial position), the vowel ㅐ (ae), and the final consonant ㅅ (s, which changes to a tensed or "s" sound followed by the cluster ㅂ, though here it is ㅅ). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible modern and some archaic combinations of Korean letters into individual code points for efficient text processing. Its use is limited to the representation of Korean writing, where it appears in certain words or documents requiring precise phonetic notation. The syllable itself is rare in modern Korean vocabulary but demonstrates the systematic and modular nature of the Hangul script within Unicode’s encoding system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C563 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Aegs |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "애" U+C560 Hangul Syllable Ae "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 앣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 앣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x95 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC563 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C563 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc563 |