U+C196 "솖" Hangul Syllable Solm Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C196 "솖" Hangul Syllable Solm is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅅ” (s), the medial vowel “ㅗ” (o), and the final consonant “ㄹㅁ” (lm). It is one of thousands of syllable blocks encoded in the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which were systematically generated to cover all possible sequences of Korean jamo letters. In practical usage, this specific syllable is quite rare in contemporary Korean vocabulary, appearing primarily in archaic or specialized contexts rather than in common everyday words.

General Properties

Code Point U+C196
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Solm
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "소" U+C18C Hangul Syllable So
"ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 솖
HTML Hex Encoding 솖
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x86 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC196
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C196
C/C++/Java Escape \uc196

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