U+C160 "셠" Hangul Syllable Syeols Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
셠
U+C160 "셠" Hangul Syllable Syeols is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode standard, representing a specific combination of Korean consonants and vowels. It is formed from the initial consonant “ㅅ” (s), the medial vowel “ㅕ” (yeo), and the final consonant cluster “ㄹㅅ” (ls), resulting in the phonetic value "syeols." This character does not appear frequently in modern Korean text and is often encountered in historical or specialized linguistic contexts where older syllable structures are retained. As part of the comprehensive Hangul Syllables block, U+C160 ensures that such a syllable from the Korean writing system is digitally representable and storable across platforms and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C160 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Syeols |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 셠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 셠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x85 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC160 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C160 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc160 |