U+C5E1 "엡" Hangul Syllable Eb Unicode Character
U+C5E1 "엡" Hangul Syllable Eb is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "eb." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (a placeholder or silent onset in modern Korean), the vowel ㅔ (e), and the final consonant ㅂ (b), resulting in a closed syllable that corresponds to one character in the modern Korean alphabet. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes over 11,000 precomposed syllable blocks to facilitate digital text processing and display in Korean. The syllable "엡" is relatively uncommon in everyday Korean vocabulary but may appear in specific loanwords or technical terms, and it serves as a functional unit in the language's phonetic representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C5E1 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Eb |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 엡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 엡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x97 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC5E1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C5E1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc5e1 |