U+C5C3 "엃" Hangul Syllable Eolh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C5C3 "엃" Hangul Syllable Eolh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, which is silent in initial position), the medial vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant cluster ㄹㅎ (rieul and hieuh, representing the sound lh). This specific syllable corresponds to the phonetic value "eolh" and belongs to the "Hangul Syllables" block of Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables that can be formed from the Korean alphabet. While it is a valid and standardized character in the Unicode standard, it is extremely rare in actual Korean language usage because the final consonant cluster "ㄹㅎ" appears in very few native or Sino-Korean words.

General Properties

Code Point U+C5C3
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Eolh
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
"ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 엃
HTML Hex Encoding 엃
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x97 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC5C3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C5C3
C/C++/Java Escape \uc5c3

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