U+C5ED "역" Hangul Syllable Yeog Unicode Character
U+C5ED "역" Hangul Syllable Yeog is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "yeok." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄋ (ieung, which is silent in this initial position) with the medial vowel ᅧ (yeo) and the final consonant ᄀ (giyeok), resulting in the syllable block 역. This character is widely used in the Korean language to form words such as 역 ("yeok"), meaning "station" or "reverse," and appears in common terms like 역사 ("yeoksa," meaning history) and 역전 ("yeokjeon," meaning reversal or a train station transfer). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it enables the efficient digital representation of Korean text, supporting the language's systematic combination of consonants and vowels into syllabic blocks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C5ED |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yeog |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "여" U+C5EC Hangul Syllable Yeo "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 역 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 역 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x97 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC5ED |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C5ED |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc5ed |