U+C587 "얇" Hangul Syllable Yalb Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
얇
U+C587 "얇" Hangul Syllable Yalb is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "yalb" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅇ (a placeholder for no sound), the vowel ㅑ (ya), and the final consonant cluster ㄼ (lb). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet in a single code point for efficient text processing and display. In actual Korean usage, "얇" is relatively rare but appears in words like "얇다" (yalbda), meaning "thin" or "slim" in English.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C587 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yalb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 얇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 얇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x96 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC587 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C587 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc587 |