U+C5E7 "엧" Hangul Syllable Ec Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
엧
U+C5E7 "엧" Hangul Syllable Ec is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "ec" in the Korean writing system. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (a placeholder for a vowel-initial syllable) with the medial vowel ㅔ (e) and the final consonant ㅊ (ch), though its pronunciation in modern Korean is simply "e" followed by a light "t" sound due to the unreleased final consonant. This syllable belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet in a single codepoint for efficient text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C5E7 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ec |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 엧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 엧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x97 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC5E7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C5E7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc5e7 |