U+C5EA "엪" Hangul Syllable Ep Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
엪
U+C5EA "엪" Hangul Syllable Ep is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, which is silent in this position) with the medial vowel ㅔ (e) and the final consonant ㅍ (pieup). This specific syllable represents the sound "ep" and is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of Korean jamo characters. As a composite character, "엪" allows for efficient text processing and display in digital environments, adhering to the syllabic writing principles of the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C5EA |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ep |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 엪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 엪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x97 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC5EA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C5EA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc5ea |