U+C5BC "얼" Hangul Syllable Eol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
얼
U+C5BC "얼" Hangul Syllable Eol is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "eol" as in the word "얼굴" (eolgul), meaning "face." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅇ" (ieung, which is silent in this position), the vowel "ㅓ" (eo), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (rieul). This character was encoded in the Unicode standard as part of the Hangul Syllables block, which contains all 11,172 possible modern Hangul syllables arranged in a logical order based on the Korean alphabetical system. As a fundamental building block of written Korean, U+C5BC is widely used in both formal and informal texts, including literature, digital communication, and signage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C5BC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Eol |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 얼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 얼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x96 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC5BC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C5BC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc5bc |