U+C5FC "염" Hangul Syllable Yeom Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
염
U+C5FC "염" Hangul Syllable Yeom is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "yeom" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, which is silent in initial position), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant ㅁ (mieum). This syllable is used in numerous Korean words, including common terms like "염려" (yeomnyeo, meaning worry or anxiety) and "염소" (yeomso, meaning goat), and carries significant cultural and linguistic meaning as part of the Korean alphabet, which was created in the 15th century under King Sejong the Great.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C5FC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yeom |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 염 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 염 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x97 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC5FC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C5FC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc5fc |