U+C120 "선" Hangul Syllable Seon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
선
U+C120 "선" Hangul Syllable Seon is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "seon." It is composed of the initial consonant ㅅ (s), the medial vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant ㄴ (n), forming a single block character. This syllable appears frequently in Korean vocabulary, notably in words such as "선생님" (seonsaengnim, meaning teacher) and "선물" (seonmul, meaning gift), and is part of the standard Unicode block for Hangul Syllables, which contains all possible combinations of Korean initial, medial, and final letters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C120 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Seon |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "서" U+C11C Hangul Syllable Seo "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 선 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 선 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x84 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC120 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C120 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc120 |