U+C5D9 "엙" Hangul Syllable Elg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C5D9 "엙" Hangul Syllable Elg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul orthography used to write the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "elg." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (which is silent in this initial position), the medial vowel ㅔ (e), and the final consonant cluster ㄺ (lg), which consists of a double consonant. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is encoded for use in digital text processing, allowing for the proper representation and rendering of this particular syllable in written Korean without needing to construct it from individual jamo components.

General Properties

Code Point U+C5D9
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Elg
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
"ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 엙
HTML Hex Encoding 엙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x97 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC5D9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C5D9
C/C++/Java Escape \uc5d9

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