U+C131 "성" Hangul Syllable Seong Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
성
U+C131 "성" Hangul Syllable Seong is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "seong" as a single encoded character rather than a combination of individual jamo letters. It is composed of the initial consonant ㅅ (s), the vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant ㅇ (ng), together forming a common syllable in the Korean language. This character is widely used in Korean words, such as "성공" (success) or "성격" (personality), and is essential for accurate text rendering and digital communication in Korean, as it belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes over 11,000 precomposed syllables for efficient representation of Korean writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C131 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Seong |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 성 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 성 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x84 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC131 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C131 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc131 |