U+C2AE "슮" Hangul Syllable Seulm Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C2AE "슮" Hangul Syllable Seulm is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅅ" (s), the vowel "ㅡ" (eu), and the final consonant "ㄺ" (lg). This specific syllable, pronounced roughly as "seulm," is found in the Korean Unicode block and is encoded as a single character to facilitate efficient text processing and display. While it may not be a high frequency syllable in everyday Korean vocabulary, it appears in certain words and compound forms, contributing to the comprehensive coverage of all possible Hangul syllable combinations in the Unicode standard, which includes 11,172 precomposed syllables for the Korean language.

General Properties

Code Point U+C2AE
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Seulm
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
"ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 슮
HTML Hex Encoding 슮
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x8A 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC2AE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C2AE
C/C++/Java Escape \uc2ae

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