U+C58E "얎" Hangul Syllable Yabs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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