U+C5F6 "엶" Hangul Syllable Yeolm Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C5F6 "엶" Hangul Syllable Yeolm is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "yeolm." It is formed from the initial consonant "ㅇ" (ieung, which is silent in this position), the medial vowel "ㅕ" (yeo), and the final consonant cluster "ㄻ" (rieul-mieum), which is a complex final consonant pronounced as a single "lm" sound. This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean hangul letters in a single code point for efficient text processing. While "엶" is a valid and correctly formed syllable, it is not commonly encountered in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, often appearing more frequently in technical linguistic contexts or older texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+C5F6
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Yeolm
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
"ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 엶
HTML Hex Encoding 엶
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x97 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC5F6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C5F6
C/C++/Java Escape \uc5f6

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter