U+C57C "야" Hangul Syllable Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
야
U+C57C "야" Hangul Syllable Ya is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound “ya.” It is formed by combining the consonant “ㅇ” (ieung), which is silent in initial position, with the vowel “ㅏ” (a), and is a fundamental building block of the Korean language used in everyday vocabulary, such as the exclamation “야” (ya) meaning “hey” or to call someone’s attention. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable combinations for the Korean alphabet as single code points for efficient text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C57C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ya |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄋ" U+110B Hangul Choseong Ieung "ᅣ" U+1163 Hangul Jungseong Ya |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 야 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 야 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x95 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC57C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C57C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc57c |