U+C590 "얐" Hangul Syllable Yass Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
얐
U+C590 "얐" Hangul Syllable Yass is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅇ" (a silent placeholder for a vowel-initial sound), the vowel "ㅑ" (representing the sound "ya"), and the final consonant "ㅆ" (a double consonant pronounced as a tense "ss" sound). As part of Unicode's Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllabic combinations in the South Korean standard, this specific character represents the phonetic value "yass" and is used in Korean text to denote a syllable that appears in certain verb conjugations or lexical items, though it is relatively uncommon in everyday vocabulary compared to more frequent syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C590 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yass |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 얐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 얐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x96 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC590 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C590 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc590 |