U+C5D2 "엒" Hangul Syllable Egg Unicode Character
U+C5D2 "엒" Hangul Syllable Egg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅇ" (silent), the medial vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant "ㄲ" (a tensed double consonant pronounced as a strong kk sound), resulting in the syllable sound "ekk". This character is part of the vast Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable combinations in the Korean writing system, and it is used in various Korean texts, primarily in modern South Korean orthography. While "엒" is a valid and recognizable syllable in Hangul, it is relatively rare in everyday vocabulary and is not as common as more frequently used syllables like "엊" or "엉".
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C5D2 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Egg |
| 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 "ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 엒 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 엒 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x97 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC5D2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C5D2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc5d2 |