U+C164 "셤" Hangul Syllable Syeom Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
셤
U+C164 "셤" Hangul Syllable Syeom is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “s” (ㅅ), the medial vowel “yeo” (ㅕ), and the final consonant “m” (ㅁ). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains 11,172 such precomposed syllables to facilitate the digital representation of Korean text. In modern Korean, this syllable is commonly found in words like “셤” (syeom), which can refer to a “island” or be used as an abbreviation for the English word “shame” in informal contexts, though its usage varies across domains.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C164 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Syeom |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 셤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 셤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x85 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC164 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C164 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc164 |