U+C5D3 "엓" Hangul Syllable Egs Unicode Character
U+C5D3 "엓" Hangul Syllable Egs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the sound "egs" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅇ (silent), the vowel ㅔ (e), and the final consonant ㄳ (gs). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet in a standard, precomposed form for digital text processing. While it exists as a valid and encodable syllable, 엓 is not commonly used in modern Korean vocabulary, as the final consonant cluster "gs" appears only in a limited set of native or historical words. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that the complete theoretical set of Hangul syllables is accessible for scholarly, linguistic, or rare usage contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C5D3 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Egs |
| 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 "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 엓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 엓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x97 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC5D3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C5D3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc5d3 |