U+C5DE "엞" Hangul Syllable Elp Unicode Character
U+C5DE "엞" Hangul Syllable Elp is a precomposed Hangul syllable used in the Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅇ" (a silent placeholder or null onset in syllable-initial position), the medial vowel "ㅔ" (pronounced like the English "e" in "bed"), and the final consonant "ㄿ" (which is a compound final representing the sequence of "ㄹ" and "ㅍ" sounds, pronounced similarly to "lp" in English). This syllable is part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo (letters) using a systematic algorithm that assigns a unique code point to each of the 11,172 mathematically predictable syllables. While "엞" is a valid and correctly formed syllable according to Hangul orthographic rules, it is rarely, if ever, used in modern Korean vocabulary, as it does not appear as a common or standard string in dictionaries or natural language usage, making it an example of a theoretical or unused syllable within
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C5DE |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Elp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 엞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 엞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x97 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC5DE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C5DE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc5de |