U+C5F0 "연" Hangul Syllable Yeon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
연
U+C5F0 "연" Hangul Syllable Yeon is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "yeon," formed from the initial consonant ㅇ (a silent placeholder or ng sound at the beginning of a syllable), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant ㄴ (n). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean alphabet letters into single code points for efficient text processing. The syllable "연" is commonly used in the Korean language, appearing in words such as "연습" (yeonseup, meaning practice) and "연기" (yeongi, meaning smoke or acting), and it plays a fundamental role in representing Korean phonetics and writing in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C5F0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yeon |
| 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 "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 연 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 연 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x97 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC5F0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C5F0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc5f0 |