U+C16A "셪" Hangul Syllable Syeoj Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C16A "셪" Hangul Syllable Syeoj is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅅ (s), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant ㅈ (j). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible precomposed syllables for the Korean alphabet. While it represents a valid phonetic combination in Korean, the syllable "셪" is extremely rare in actual usage and does not appear in common vocabulary, making it an obscure but technically correct component of the standard Hangul syllabary encoding.

General Properties

Code Point U+C16A
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Syeoj
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
"ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 셪
HTML Hex Encoding 셪
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x85 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC16A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C16A
C/C++/Java Escape \uc16a

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