U+C158 "션" Hangul Syllable Syeon Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C158 "션" Hangul Syllable Syeon is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "syeon" as it appears in the Korean alphabet Hangul. It is formed from the initial consonant ㅅ (s) and the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo) combined with the final consonant ㄴ (n), and it is used in various Korean words and names, such as in the word "선생님" (teacher) when written in certain phonetic contexts. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations in the Korean script through a systematic arrangement of initial, medial, and final jamo components.

General Properties

Code Point U+C158
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Syeon
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "셔" U+C154 Hangul Syllable Syeo
"ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 션
HTML Hex Encoding 션
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x85 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC158
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C158
C/C++/Java Escape \uc158

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