U+C5F5 "엵" Hangul Syllable Yeolg Unicode Character
U+C5F5 "엵" Hangul Syllable Yeolg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅇ” (a silent placeholder), the vowel “ㅕ” (yeo), and the final consonant “ㄺ” (lg). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic blocks formed from the Korean alphabet. Though 엵 is a valid and correctly formed syllable, it is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary or standard dictionaries, and it primarily serves to ensure complete coverage of phonetic possibilities within the Unicode standard. Its inclusion demonstrates the systematic and logical structure of Hangul, where syllables are constructed from individual jamo characters to represent distinct sounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C5F5 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yeolg |
| 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 "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 엵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 엵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x97 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC5F5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C5F5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc5f5 |