U+C5AE "얮" Hangul Syllable Yaej Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C5AE "얮" Hangul Syllable Yaej is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing a specific phoneme in the Korean language. It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅇ" (ieung), the medial vowel "ㅒ" (yae), and the final consonant "ㅈ" (jieut). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet, allowing for efficient text processing and display. In modern Korean, "얮" is rarely used in everyday vocabulary and appears only in specialized or historical contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+C5AE
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Yaej
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
"ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 얮
HTML Hex Encoding 얮
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x96 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC5AE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C5AE
C/C++/Java Escape \uc5ae

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