U+C5D1 "엑" Hangul Syllable Eg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C5D1 "엑" Hangul Syllable Eg is a precomposed Korean Hangul syllable representing the sound "eg" or "ek," depending on phonetic context. It is formed from the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, a silent placeholder in initial position for vowel sounds), the vowel ㅔ (e), and the final consonant ㄱ (giyeok). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes complete syllable blocks for the Korean writing system, allowing for efficient text processing and display. In modern Korean, "엑" appears in various words, such as in the loanword "엑스" (ekseu, meaning "X" or "x-ray"), and exemplifies how Unicode enables digital representation of complex syllabic scripts.

General Properties

Code Point U+C5D1
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Eg
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "에" U+C5D0 Hangul Syllable E
"ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 엑
HTML Hex Encoding 엑
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x97 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC5D1
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C5D1
C/C++/Java Escape \uc5d1

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