U+C108 "섈" Hangul Syllable Syael Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C108 "섈" Hangul Syllable Syael is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "syael," which is formed from the initial consonant ㅅ (s), the medial vowel ㅒ (yae), and the final consonant ㄹ (l). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible precomposed syllable combinations from the Korean writing system to facilitate text processing and rendering. It is used in modern Korean for representing words or syllables that contain this specific phonetic combination, such as in loanwords or certain native vocabulary, and its existence simplifies encoding by avoiding the need to combine individual jamo characters dynamically.

General Properties

Code Point U+C108
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Syael
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "섀" U+C100 Hangul Syllable Syae
"ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 섈
HTML Hex Encoding 섈
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x84 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC108
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C108
C/C++/Java Escape \uc108

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter