U+C590 "얐" Hangul Syllable Yass Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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