U+C5B5 "억" Hangul Syllable Eog Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
억
U+C5B5 "억" Hangul Syllable Eog is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "eok." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, which is silent in this position), the medial vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant ㄱ (giyeok). As part of the Hangul Syllables block within Unicode, it allows for efficient digital text processing of Korean, where syllables like 억 are commonly used in everyday vocabulary, ranging from words meaning "roughly" or "about" (approximately) to components of financial or abstract terms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C5B5 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Eog |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "어" U+C5B4 Hangul Syllable Eo "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 억 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 억 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x96 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC5B5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C5B5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc5b5 |