U+C173 "셳" Hangul Syllable Syegs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C173 "셳" Hangul Syllable Syegs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "syegs." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅅ (s), the medial vowel ㅖ (ye), and the final consonant cluster ㅅ (s) and ㄱ (g), effectively encoding this specific phonetic unit as a single codepoint within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode. This character is primarily used in written Korean, where it may appear in formal or historical contexts, though it is not among the most frequently used syllables in everyday contemporary language.

General Properties

Code Point U+C173
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Syegs
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
"ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 셳
HTML Hex Encoding 셳
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x85 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC173
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C173
C/C++/Java Escape \uc173

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