U+C2AC "슬" Hangul Syllable Seul Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
슬
U+C2AC "슬" Hangul Syllable Seul is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system of Korean, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅅ (s), the medial vowel ㅡ (eu), and the final consonant ㄹ (l). It represents the sound "seul" and appears in many Korean words, such as "슬기" (seulgi, meaning wisdom) and "슬픔" (seulpeum, meaning sadness), playing a common role in both everyday vocabulary and literary contexts. As part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable combinations in the Korean alphabet, this character is essential for accurate digital text representation and processing in Korean language documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C2AC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Seul |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "스" U+C2A4 Hangul Syllable Seu "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 슬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 슬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x8A 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC2AC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C2AC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc2ac |