U+C174 "셴" Hangul Syllable Syen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
셴
U+C174 "셴" Hangul Syllable Syen is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound “syen” as used in the Korean language. It is formed from the initial consonant ㅅ (s), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant ㄴ (n), following the standard syllabic block structure of Hangul. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants for digital text processing. In practical use, “셴” may appear in transliterated foreign words or in specialized Korean vocabulary, though it is not a common syllable in everyday Korean speech.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C174 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Syen |
| 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 "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 셴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 셴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x85 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC174 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C174 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc174 |