U+C147 "셇" Hangul Syllable Selh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C147 "셇" Hangul Syllable Selh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant ᄉ (s), the medial vowel ㅔ (e), and the final consonant ᄒ (h) to represent the sound "selh." Although it is a valid and encoded character in the Unicode Standard’s Hangul Syllables block, which encompasses all possible combinations of Korean jamo, the syllable "셇" is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary and appears primarily in specialized or rare contexts such as phonetic transcription, historical texts, or technical linguistic examples.

General Properties

Code Point U+C147
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Selh
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
"ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 셇
HTML Hex Encoding 셇
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x85 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC147
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C147
C/C++/Java Escape \uc147

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter