U+C5C2 "엂" Hangul Syllable Eolp Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C5C2 "엂" Hangul Syllable Eolp is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅇ” (a silent placeholder or ng sound), the vowel “ㅓ” (eo), and the final consonants “ㄼ” (lb), which together produce the sound “eolp.” It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial, medial, and final jamo characters as single code points for easier digital processing and display. This specific syllable is used in the modern Korean vocabulary primarily within standard written texts, though it is less common than more frequent syllables, and it exemplifies the systematic and logical structure of Hangul’s syllabic blocks.

General Properties

Code Point U+C5C2
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Eolp
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
"ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 엂
HTML Hex Encoding 엂
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x97 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC5C2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C5C2
C/C++/Java Escape \uc5c2

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