U+C17E "셾" Hangul Syllable Syelp Unicode Character
U+C17E "셾" Hangul Syllable Syelp is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the phonetic compound "syelp" (ㅅ + ㅖ + ㄹ + ㅍ), where the initial consonant is a siot (ㅅ), the medial vowel is a ye (ㅖ), and the final consonants are a mieum (ㄹ) and a pieup (ㅍ) forming a complex coda. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters as single code points for efficient text processing. As a rarely used syllable, "셾" does not appear in common vocabulary but may be encountered in specialized linguistic contexts or historical texts where precomposed hangul descriptions are needed. Its Unicode encoding ensures consistent representation across digital platforms for the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C17E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Syelp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 셾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 셾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x85 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC17E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C17E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc17e |