U+C5E0 "엠" Hangul Syllable Em Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C5E0 "엠" Hangul Syllable Em is a single, precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "em" as in the English word "them". It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅁ (mieum) with the medial vowel ㅔ (e) and the final consonant ㅁ (mieum), and it is commonly used in Korean writing to represent the letter "M" as a phonetic loanword or as part of syllables in words like 엠마 (Emma). As a member of the Hangul Syllables block within the Unicode standard, it allows for efficient text encoding and display of the Korean alphabet across digital platforms.

General Properties

Code Point U+C5E0
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Em
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
"ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 엠
HTML Hex Encoding 엠
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x97 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC5E0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C5E0
C/C++/Java Escape \uc5e0

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter