U+C5DA "엚" Hangul Syllable Elm Unicode Character
U+C5DA "엚" Hangul Syllable Elm is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic sound "elm." This character is formed from the initial consonant "ㅇ" (a placeholder or silent letter in initial position), the vowel "ㅔ" (which sounds like "eh"), and the final consonant "ㄻ" (a double consonant representing an "lm" sound, as in the English world elm). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encompasses all 11,172 possible combinations of initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants in the Korean alphabet. As a precomposed form, standard input methods typically require the user to type the individual jamo components (ㅇ, ㅔ, and ㄹ + ㅁ) which then automatically combine into this single glyph, facilitating efficient text processing and display in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C5DA |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Elm |
| 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 "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 엚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 엚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x97 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC5DA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C5DA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc5da |