U+C5CC "엌" Hangul Syllable Eok Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C5CC "엌" Hangul Syllable Eok is a precomposed syllabic block in the Hangul script, representing the Korean syllable pronounced approximately as "eok." This character is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, which is silent in syllable-initial position), the medial vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant ㅋ (kieuk), and it belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode Standard. As part of the Korean writing system, 엌 is used in modern Korean to form various words and is one of many syllabic characters that enhance text processing and display for the Korean language.

General Properties

Code Point U+C5CC
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Eok
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
"ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 엌
HTML Hex Encoding 엌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x97 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC5CC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C5CC
C/C++/Java Escape \uc5cc

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