U+C58E "얎" Hangul Syllable Yabs Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
얎
U+C58E "얎" Hangul Syllable Yabs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "yabs" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅇ (a placeholder that denotes no initial consonant sound), the medial vowel ㅑ (ya), and the final consonant ㅄ (bs). Part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is encoded as a single code point rather than a sequence of jamo characters, simplifying text processing for Korean digital writing. This syllable is used in Korean language contexts to form words or morphemes, though it is relatively rare compared to more common syllables, and it exists within the systematic arrangement of all 11,172 possible modern Hangul syllables in Unicode.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C58E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yabs |
| 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 "ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 얎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 얎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x96 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC58E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C58E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc58e |