U+C585 "얅" Hangul Syllable Yalg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C585 "얅" Hangul Syllable Yalg is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "yalg." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (a silent placeholder or ng sound in syllable-initial position, here acting as a null onset), the vowel ㅑ (ya), and the final consonant cluster ㄺ (lg). This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode standard, which encodes all 11,172 possible modern Korean syllable combinations, and is used in written Korean for specific words or names, though it is relatively rare in everyday vocabulary.

General Properties

Code Point U+C585
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Yalg
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
"ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 얅
HTML Hex Encoding 얅
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x96 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC585
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C585
C/C++/Java Escape \uc585

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter