U+C5AB "얫" Hangul Syllable Yaes Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C5AB "얫" Hangul Syllable Yaes is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul orthography, representing the Korean sound "yaes," which combines the initial consonant ㅇ (a placeholder for a vowel-initial syllable) with the medial vowel ㅒ (yae) and the final consonant ㅅ (s). This syllable is used in written Korean to represent a specific phonetic unit, often appearing in words or transcriptions that require this particular combination of sounds, and it belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet's consonants and vowels in a systematic, precomposed manner.

General Properties

Code Point U+C5AB
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Yaes
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
"ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 얫
HTML Hex Encoding 얫
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x96 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC5AB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C5AB
C/C++/Java Escape \uc5ab

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