U+C5BC "얼" Hangul Syllable Eol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+C5BC "얼" Hangul Syllable Eol is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "eol" as in the word "얼굴" (eolgul), meaning "face." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅇ" (ieung, which is silent in this position), the vowel "ㅓ" (eo), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (rieul). This character was encoded in the Unicode standard as part of the Hangul Syllables block, which contains all 11,172 possible modern Hangul syllables arranged in a logical order based on the Korean alphabetical system. As a fundamental building block of written Korean, U+C5BC is widely used in both formal and informal texts, including literature, digital communication, and signage.
General Properties
Code Point
U+C5BC
Name
Hangul Syllable Eol
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
얼
HTML Hex Encoding
얼
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEC 0x96 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding
0xC5BC
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000C5BC
C/C++/Java Escape
\uc5bc
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Hangul