U+C172 "셲" Hangul Syllable Syegg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C172 "셲" Hangul Syllable Syegg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅅ" (s), the medial vowel "ㅖ" (ye), and the final consonant "ㄲ" (kk). This character represents a specific phonetic unit in Korean orthography, where syllabic blocks are constructed to encode spoken Korean in a compact, visual form. While it is a valid and recognized syllable within the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, it is not commonly used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary and may appear primarily in specialized linguistic contexts, historical texts, or as part of the full range of theoretically possible syllables in the language's writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+C172
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Syegg
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "셰" U+C170 Hangul Syllable Sye
"ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 셲
HTML Hex Encoding 셲
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x85 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC172
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C172
C/C++/Java Escape \uc172

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