U+C601 "영" Hangul Syllable Yeong Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
영
U+C601 "영" Hangul Syllable Yeong is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "yeong" as in the word "영어" (yeong-eo), meaning English language. It is composed of the initial consonant ㅇ (ieung, silent in initial position), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant ㅇ (ieung, pronounced as [ŋ] in syllable-final position). This syllable is widely used in Korean vocabulary, appearing in common words such as "영화" (yeonghwa, meaning movie) and "영국" (yeongguk, meaning United Kingdom), and is a fundamental component of modern written Korean, encoded in the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C601 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Yeong |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 영 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 영 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x98 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC601 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C601 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc601 |