U+C162 "셢" Hangul Syllable Syeolp Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C162 "셢" Hangul Syllable Syeolp is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅅ” (s), the medial vowel “ㅕ” (yeo), and the final consonant “ㅍ” (p). This syllable, pronounced roughly as “syeolp,” is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes the 11,172 possible syllables that can be formed from the Korean alphabet’s consonants and vowels. While not a commonly used word in contemporary Korean, it demonstrates the systematic, block-based encoding used to efficiently represent the Korean language in digital text, ensuring compatibility across different systems and applications.

General Properties

Code Point U+C162
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Syeolp
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
"ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 셢
HTML Hex Encoding 셢
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x85 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC162
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C162
C/C++/Java Escape \uc162

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