U+C5EC "여" Hangul Syllable Yeo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
여
U+C5EC "여" Hangul Syllable Yeo is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script used for writing the Korean language, representing the sound "yeo" as in the English word "yes" but with a softer ending. This character combines the initial consonant ㅇ (which is silent in initial position) and the vowel ㅕ (yeo), forming a fundamental building block of the Korean writing system. It appears frequently in everyday Korean vocabulary, such as in the word 여자 (yeoja) meaning "woman" or "girl" and 여기 (yeogi) meaning "here," making it an essential syllable for communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C5EC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yeo |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄋ" U+110B Hangul Choseong Ieung "ᅧ" U+1167 Hangul Jungseong Yeo |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 여 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 여 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x97 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC5EC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C5EC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc5ec |