U+C5DD "엝" Hangul Syllable Elt Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
엝
U+C5DD "엝" Hangul Syllable Elt is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "elt." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, which serves as a silent placeholder when no initial consonant is pronounced), the medial vowel ㅔ (e), and the final consonant cluster ㄾ (lt, composed of ㄹ and ㅌ). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable combinations in modern Korean, facilitating the digital representation and typing of the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C5DD |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Elt |
| 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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 엝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 엝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x97 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC5DD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C5DD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc5dd |