U+C14D "셍" Hangul Syllable Seng Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C14D "셍" Hangul Syllable Seng is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, formed by combining the initial consonant “ㅅ” (s) with the vowel “ㅐ” (ae) and the final consonant “ㅇ” (ng). This specific syllable, pronounced “seng,” is used in the Korean language to represent a distinct phonetic unit within words, and its inclusion in the Unicode Standard ensures consistent digital representation across different platforms and systems. As a member of the Hangul Syllables block, it follows the systematic ordering of Unicode from U+AC00 to U+D7AF, which encodes all 11,172 possible modern Hangul syllables in a logical sequence based on initial, vowel, and final components.

General Properties

Code Point U+C14D
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Seng
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
"ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 셍
HTML Hex Encoding 셍
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x85 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC14D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C14D
C/C++/Java Escape \uc14d

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