U+C16D "셭" Hangul Syllable Syeot Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
셭
U+C16D "셭" Hangul Syllable Syeot is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic sound "syeot" and is composed of the initial consonant ㅅ (s) and the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), followed by the final consonant ㅌ (t). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants to enable efficient digital text processing. In modern usage, "셭" is a rare or uncommon syllable, as its sound combination is infrequent in contemporary Korean vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C16D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Syeot |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 셭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 셭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x85 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC16D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C16D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc16d |