U+C597 "얗" Hangul Syllable Yah Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
얗
U+C597 "얗" Hangul Syllable Yah is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the consonant "ㅇ" (a silent initial sound in this position) and the vowel "ㅑ" (the diphthong "ya"), followed by the final consonant "ㅎ" (the aspirated "h" sound). This syllable is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, but it exists as part of the standardized Unicode block for Hangul syllables, which includes all possible combinations of initial consonants, medial vowels, and optional final consonants to comprehensively encode written Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C597 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yah |
| 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 "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 얗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 얗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x96 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC597 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C597 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc597 |