U+C176 "셶" Hangul Syllable Syenh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C176 "셶" Hangul Syllable Syenh is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing a specific phonetic combination in the modern Korean alphabet, consisting of an initial consonant S (ㅅ), a medial vowel Ye (ㅖ), and a final consonant Nh (ㄶ), which together produce the sound "syeonh" or "syenh." Like other Hangul syllables in Unicode's vast CJK block, it was added to the standard primarily to support historical or linguistic texts, as this particular syllable does not commonly appear in contemporary Korean vocabulary but may be encountered in specialized academic or literary contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+C176
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Syenh
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
"ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 셶
HTML Hex Encoding 셶
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x85 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC176
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C176
C/C++/Java Escape \uc176

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