U+C5DB "엛" Hangul Syllable Elb Unicode Character
U+C5DB "엛" Hangul Syllable Elb is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant ㅇ (a silent placeholder or 'ng' sound in syllable-final position), the medial vowel ㅔ (e), and the final consonant ㄼ (lb). This specific syllable, pronounced approximately as "elp" with a final consonant cluster, is not a commonly used word in standard Korean but is part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllables formed from the Korean alphabet through a systematic combination of initial, medial, and final jamo characters. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that Korean text processing systems can correctly display and handle rare or archaic syllables like 엛, supporting comprehensive digital representation of the written language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C5DB |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Elb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 엛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 엛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x97 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC5DB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C5DB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc5db |