U+C596 "얖" Hangul Syllable Yap Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
얖
U+C596 "얖" Hangul Syllable Yap is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, formed from the initial consonant ㅇ (which is silent when initial) and the vowel ㅑ (ya), combined with the final consonant ㅍ (p). This specific syllable represents the sound "yap" in Korean phonology. It is part of the Hangul Syllables Unicode block, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of Korean jamo (letters) in a single character, allowing for efficient text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C596 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yap |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 얖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 얖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x96 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC596 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C596 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc596 |