U+C0B9 "삹" Hangul Syllable Salt Unicode Character
U+C0B9 "삹" Hangul Syllable Salt is a specific precomposed syllable within the Hangul script of the Korean writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant S (시옷, ㅅ) with the vowel A (아, ㅏ) and the final consonant L (리을, ㄹ), though its actual pronunciation as "Salt" reflects the modern Korean consonantal shift where the final ㄹ is typically pronounced as an L or R sound before a syllable boundary. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), a large, ordered set created algorithmically from Korean phoneme combinations. While "sal" is a common Korean word meaning "flesh" or "price," this specific syllable form is not a standalone word in standard modern usage, and its inclusion in Unicode primarily serves to maintain orthographic completeness for representing any possible Hangul jamo sequence in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C0B9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Salt |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "사" U+C0AC Hangul Syllable Sa "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 삹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 삹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x82 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC0B9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C0B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc0b9 |