U+C5A6 "얦" Hangul Syllable Yaelp Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
얦
U+C5A6 "얦" Hangul Syllable Yaelp is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "yaelp," which is a rarely used but valid syllable in the Korean writing system. It combines the initial consonant ㅇ (a silent placeholder or the /ŋ/ sound in some contexts), the medial vowel ㅒ (the diphthong "yae"), and the final consonant ㅍ (the aspirated bilabial stop "p"). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was designed to encode all possible syllables formed from the Korean alphabet in a single code point for efficient processing, though many like "얦" see little use in modern Korean text and are primarily of interest for historical, linguistic, or typographic purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C5A6 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yaelp |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "얘" U+C598 Hangul Syllable Yae "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 얦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 얦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x96 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC5A6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C5A6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc5a6 |