U+C58F "얏" Hangul Syllable Yas Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
얏
U+C58F "얏" Hangul Syllable Yas is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant 'ㅇ' (a silent placeholder or the 'ng' sound in coda position), the vowel 'ㅑ' (which sounds like 'ya'), and the final consonant 'ㅅ' (pronounced as 't' at the end of a syllable). As a syllable block, it is encoded as a single character in the Unicode Standard for efficient text processing, and it typically appears in Korean text as part of words or names, carrying the sound "yat" in English approximation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C58F |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yas |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 얏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 얏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x96 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC58F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C58F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc58f |