U+C580 "얀" Hangul Syllable Yan Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
얀
U+C580 "얀" Hangul Syllable Yan is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅇ" (which is silent in initial position), the vowel "ㅑ" (ya), and the final consonant "ㄴ" (n), resulting in the sound "yan". It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks for the Korean writing system based on the principle of initial, medial, and final jamo (letters). This specific syllable is used in the Korean language to form words, such as in the noun "얀" (yan), referring to a type of swallow or the color blue, depending on context.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C580 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yan |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "야" U+C57C Hangul Syllable Ya "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 얀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 얀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x96 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC580 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C580 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc580 |