U+C143 "셃" Hangul Syllable Selb Unicode Character
U+C143 "셃" Hangul Syllable Selb is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "selb" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅅ (s), the vowel ㅔ (e), and the final consonant ㄹㅂ (lb). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was designed to encode all possible combinations of Hangul jamo characters into single code points for efficient text processing and display. The syllable "셃" is formed by composing the initial, medial, and final jamo components into a single character, following the standard layout rules of Hangul where the consonant and vowel stack vertically and the final consonant sits beneath them. This character is used in modern Korean orthography, though it appears relatively infrequently in everyday language compared to more common syllables, and it can be found in specialized or less frequent vocabulary within written Korean texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C143 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Selb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 셃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 셃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x85 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC143 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C143 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc143 |