U+C16B "셫" Hangul Syllable Syeoc Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
셫
U+C16B "셫" Hangul Syllable Syeoc is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅅ" (s), the medial vowel "ㅕ" (yeo), and the final consonant "ㅊ" (ch). This syllable is pronounced approximately as "syeot" in English, though it is not a very common syllable in standard contemporary Korean vocabulary, appearing more often in specialized contexts or in the romanization of foreign loanwords. It represents a single character in the Unicode standard, which was designed to include all possible combinations of Hangul jamo to facilitate digital text processing and display for the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C16B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Syeoc |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 셫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 셫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x85 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC16B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C16B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc16b |