U+C141 "셁" Hangul Syllable Selg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
셁
U+C141 "셁" Hangul Syllable Selg is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅅ" (s), the vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (l) followed by "ㄱ" (g), rendering the sound "selg." As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is used in written Korean to facilitate digital text processing and display, though it appears relatively infrequently in modern vocabulary compared to more common syllables. This character exemplifies how Unicode efficiently encodes complex syllabic blocks from the Korean alphabet into single code points for uniform representation across different platforms and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C141 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Selg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "세" U+C138 Hangul Syllable Se "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 셁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 셁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x85 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC141 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C141 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc141 |