U+C5E3 "엣" Hangul Syllable Es Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C5E3 "엣" Hangul Syllable Es is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "et" or "es" depending on romanization convention. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, which is silent in initial position) with the medial vowel ㅔ (e) and the final consonant ㅅ (siot), making it one of many syllabic blocks in the Unicode Hangul Syllables range. This character is used in written Korean to form words and grammatical elements, such as in the verb ending 엣 (es) which can appear in certain colloquial or archaic contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+C5E3
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Es
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
"ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 엣
HTML Hex Encoding 엣
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x97 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC5E3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C5E3
C/C++/Java Escape \uc5e3

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