U+C5B4 "어" Hangul Syllable Eo Unicode Character
U+C5B4 "어" Hangul Syllable Eo is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "eo" as in the English word "song" but with a more open, back vowel quality. It is a combination of the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung), which is silent when placed at the start of a syllable, and the vowel ㅓ (eo), one of the basic jamo components. In the Unicode standard, it belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants as single code points for efficient text processing. This character is widely used in Korean writing, appearing in common words such as 어머니 (eomeoni, meaning mother) and 어디 (eodi, meaning where), and it plays a fundamental role in the phonetic representation of the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C5B4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Eo |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄋ" U+110B Hangul Choseong Ieung "ᅥ" U+1165 Hangul Jungseong Eo |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 어 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 어 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x96 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC5B4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C5B4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc5b4 |