U+C588 "얈" Hangul Syllable Yals Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C588 "얈" Hangul Syllable Yals is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "yals" as it would appear in the Hangul alphabet. It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅇ" (a silent placeholder), the medial vowel "ㅑ" (ya), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (l) and "ㅅ" (s), resulting in the complete syllable block. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains all possible syllable combinations for the Korean script, and it is used in written Korean for linguistic accuracy, though it is relatively uncommon in everyday vocabulary.

General Properties

Code Point U+C588
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Yals
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
"ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 얈
HTML Hex Encoding 얈
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x96 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC588
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C588
C/C++/Java Escape \uc588

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