U+C5B6 "얶" Hangul Syllable Eogg Unicode Character
U+C5B6 "얶" Hangul Syllable Eogg is a specific precomposed syllable from the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "eo" (ㅇ, silent as a placeholder), the medial vowel "o" (ㅗ), and the final consonant cluster "gg" (ㄲ). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes over 11,000 possible syllable blocks that are formed by combining Korean jamo (letters) in a standard layout. The syllable "얶" itself is not a common word in Korean but is a valid orthographic unit, demonstrating the systematic nature of Hangul's writing where each syllable block is assigned a unique code point for consistent digital representation and text processing across different platforms and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C5B6 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Eogg |
| 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 "ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 얶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 얶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x96 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC5B6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C5B6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc5b6 |