U+C16E "셮" Hangul Syllable Syeop Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
셮
U+C16E "셮" Hangul Syllable Syeop is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of a consonant and vowel to form the sound "syeop." In the Korean writing system, it corresponds to the individual jamo characters ᄉ (s) and ᅧ (yeo) combined with the final consonant ᇁ (p), resulting in a single block for efficient text processing. This syllable is used in the Korean language as a component of words, though it is less common than some other syllables. Its encoding in Unicode ensures consistent representation across digital platforms and systems that support the Korean script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C16E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Syeop |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 셮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 셮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x85 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC16E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C16E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc16e |