U+C5B3 "얳" Hangul Syllable Yaeh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C5B3 "얳" Hangul Syllable Yaeh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the sound "yaeh" which combines the leading consonant ㅇ (ieung, a silent placeholder in initial position) with the vowel ㅒ (yae) and the final consonant ㅎ (hieut). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes complete syllable blocks as single code points to simplify text processing. As a relatively rare but valid syllable, it may appear in specialized Korean vocabulary, linguistic examples, or phonetic transcriptions, though it is not commonly used in everyday modern Korean text.

General Properties

Code Point U+C5B3
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Yaeh
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
"ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 얳
HTML Hex Encoding 얳
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x96 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC5B3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C5B3
C/C++/Java Escape \uc5b3

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