U+C5A6 "얦" Hangul Syllable Yaelp Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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