U+C1EF "쇯" Hangul Syllable Soelh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쇯
U+C1EF "쇯" Hangul Syllable Soelh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant ㅅ (s), the medial vowel ㅚ (oe), and the final consonant ㄹ (l), thus producing the sound "soelh." This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was added to the standard to efficiently encode the tens of thousands of possible syllable blocks used in the Korean language. While it may not be a common word in everyday Korean vocabulary, its existence in the Unicode standard ensures that any valid Hangul syllable can be digitally represented, preserving the completeness of the script for linguistic accuracy and computer processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C1EF |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Soelh |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쇠" U+C1E0 Hangul Syllable Soe "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쇯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쇯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x87 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC1EF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C1EF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc1ef |