U+C2E7 "싧" Hangul Syllable Silb Unicode Character
U+C2E7 "싧" Hangul Syllable Silb is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used for writing the Korean language, representing a phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅅ" (s), the medial vowel "ㅣ" (i), and the final consonant "ㄼ" (lb). This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables formed by combining Korean jamo consonants and vowels into single code points for efficient text processing. While "싧" is a valid and allocated Unicode character, it is considered a rarely used or obsolete syllable in contemporary Korean, as the actual Korean word for "silb" (meaning "eight" in some contexts) is typically spelled "여덟" instead. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures comprehensive coverage of the language's historical and theoretical syllabic inventory.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C2E7 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Silb |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "시" U+C2DC Hangul Syllable Si "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 싧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 싧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x8B 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC2E7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C2E7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc2e7 |