U+C5DC "엜" Hangul Syllable Els Unicode Character
U+C5DC "엜" Hangul Syllable Els is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the consonant "ㅇ" (a placeholder or silent initial) and the vowel "ㅔ" (e) followed by the final consonant "ㄹ" (l) and "ㅅ" (s), together forming the sound "els." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable blocks of the Korean alphabet for efficient text processing. While "엜" is a valid and standardized syllable in the Hangul script, it is extremely rare in actual Korean usage, as the sequence of sounds it represents does not commonly occur in native or Sino-Korean vocabulary, making it a largely theoretical or typographically available character rather than a frequently employed one.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C5DC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Els |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 엜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 엜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x97 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC5DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C5DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc5dc |