U+C12D "섭" Hangul Syllable Seob Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
섭
U+C12D "섭" Hangul Syllable Seob is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "seob." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅅ (s), the vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant ㅂ (b), following the standard syllabic block structure of Korean. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was designed to encode all possible combinations of Korean jamo letters as single code points for efficient digital text processing. In the Korean language, "섭" can appear in various words, such as "섭씨" (seopssi) meaning Celsius or "섭섭하다" (seopseophada) expressing a feeling of regret or dissatisfaction.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C12D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Seob |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 섭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 섭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x84 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC12D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C12D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc12d |