U+C17B "셻" Hangul Syllable Syelb Unicode Character
U+C17B "셻" Hangul Syllable Syelb is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅅ" (siot), the medial vowel "ㅖ" (ye), and the final consonant "ㄼ" (rieul bieup). This specific syllable, "셻," is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes the full set of 11,172 possible syllabic combinations in the Korean alphabet using a systematic algorithm rather than individual character definitions. Its pronunciation approximates "syelp" in the standard Romanization of Korean, though it is a very rare or obsolete syllable not commonly found in modern Korean vocabulary, as the final consonant cluster "ㄼ" is unusual in contemporary usage. The inclusion of such syllables in Unicode ensures comprehensive text support for historical or specialized Korean linguistic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C17B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Syelb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 셻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 셻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x85 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC17B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C17B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc17b |