U+C5EF "엯" Hangul Syllable Yeogs Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
엯
U+C5EF "엯" Hangul Syllable Yeogs is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, which is used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "yeo" (ㅇ + ㅕ) with the final consonant "gs" (ㄳ), forming a sound that does not correspond to a common Korean word or morpheme in standard vocabulary. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic sequences of the Korean alphabet for consistent text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C5EF |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yeogs |
| 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 "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 엯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 엯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x97 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC5EF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C5EF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc5ef |