U+C142 "셂" Hangul Syllable Selm Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
셂
U+C142 "셂" Hangul Syllable Selm is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language. It represents the phonetic sound "selm," formed by combining the initial consonant ᄉ (s), the vowel ᅦ (e), and the final consonant ㄻ (lm). This character is part of a large block of Hangul syllables in Unicode, which encodes tens of thousands of possible combinations of Korean letters to facilitate digital text processing. As a precomposed form, "셂" allows for efficient rendering and sorting of Korean text in computer systems without requiring dynamic composition from individual jamo components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C142 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Selm |
| 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 "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 셂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 셂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x85 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC142 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C142 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc142 |