U+C5F7 "엷" Hangul Syllable Yeolb Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
엷
U+C5F7 "엷" Hangul Syllable Yeolb is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final double consonant ㄼ (rieul-bieup). This character represents a specific phonetic sound in the Korean language, pronounced roughly as “yeolb,” and is used in words such as “엷다” (yeolda), meaning “thin” or “pale,” often referring to color, light, or consistency. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it exemplifies the systematic and modular nature of Korean orthography, where individual letters combine to form syllabic blocks that enable efficient text representation and processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C5F7 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yeolb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 엷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 엷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x97 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC5F7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C5F7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc5f7 |