U+C5D8 "엘" Hangul Syllable El Unicode Character
U+C5D8 "엘" Hangul Syllable El is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "el" as in the English word "elbow." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, which acts as a placeholder for a vowel-initial syllable) with the vowel ㅔ (e) and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllables of the Korean alphabet in a single, standardized code point for efficient digital text processing. In Korean, 엘 is commonly used in loanwords and foreign names, such as the Roman letter "L" or the word "el" in musical notation, and it appears frequently in modern written Korean, including in brand names and technical terminology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C5D8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable El |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 엘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 엘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x97 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC5D8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C5D8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc5d8 |