U+C138 "세" Hangul Syllable Se Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
세
U+C138 "세" Hangul Syllable Se is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "se." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅅ (s) and the vowel ㅔ (e), combined into a single codepoint to simplify text processing and storage. This character is widely used in the Korean language, appearing in common words such as "세계" (world) and "세상" (life or world), and it belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes the vast majority of modern and medieval Korean syllable combinations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C138 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Se |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄉ" U+1109 Hangul Choseong Sios "ᅦ" U+1166 Hangul Jungseong E |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 세 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 세 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x84 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC138 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C138 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc138 |