U+C179 "셹" Hangul Syllable Syelg Unicode Character
U+C179 "셹" Hangul Syllable Syelg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used for writing the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅅ" (s), the medial vowel "ㅖ" (ye), and the final consonant "ㄺ" (lg). As a precomposed form, it encodes this specific syllable as a single code point rather than requiring separate jamo components, which streamlines text processing and display in digital systems. While "셹" is a valid and defined syllable in the Unicode Standard, it is considered rare or obsolete in contemporary Korean usage, as the combination of "ㅖ" with a final consonant cluster like "ㄺ" does not occur in standard modern Korean words, making this character more of a typographic or historical artifact than a commonly used lexical item.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C179 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Syelg |
| 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 "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 셹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 셹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x85 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC179 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C179 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc179 |