U+C162 "셢" Hangul Syllable Syeolp Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
셢
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 |