U+C169 "셩" Hangul Syllable Syeong Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C169 "셩" Hangul Syllable Syeong is a single precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "syeong." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅅ" (s), the medial vowel "ㅕ" (yeo), and the final consonant "ㅇ" (ng), and it belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet. In contemporary Korean, this syllable is relatively rare and appears primarily in specific vocabulary, historical contexts, or loanword transcriptions, rather than in common everyday words.

General Properties

Code Point U+C169
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Syeong
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
"ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 셩
HTML Hex Encoding 셩
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x85 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC169
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C169
C/C++/Java Escape \uc169

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