U+C167 "셧" Hangul Syllable Syeos Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
셧
U+C167 "셧" Hangul Syllable Syeos is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic syllable "syeos," formed by combining the initial consonant ㅅ (s), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant ㅅ (s), resulting in a sound similar to "syut" in English. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo characters into single codepoints for efficient text processing. Its usage is typical in Korean words where the syllable "셧" appears, such as in certain verb conjugations or compound nouns.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C167 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Syeos |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 셧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 셧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x85 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC167 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C167 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc167 |