U+C17A "셺" Hangul Syllable Syelm Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
셺
U+C17A "셺" Hangul Syllable Syelm is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅅ" (s), the medial vowel "ㅖ" (ye), and the final consonant "ㄻ" (lm). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllables of the Korean alphabet in a single, precomposed form for efficient text processing. As a relatively rare syllable, "셺" is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary but may appear in specialized contexts, such as linguistic transcription or formal literature, demonstrating the systematic and comprehensive nature of the Hangul writing system's digital representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C17A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Syelm |
| 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 "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 셺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 셺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x85 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC17A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C17A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc17a |