U+C5E3 "엣" Hangul Syllable Es Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
엣
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 |