U+C179 "" Hangul Syllable Syelg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+C179 "" Hangul Syllable Syelg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used for writing the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅅ" (s), the medial vowel "ㅖ" (ye), and the final consonant "ㄺ" (lg). As a precomposed form, it encodes this specific syllable as a single code point rather than requiring separate jamo components, which streamlines text processing and display in digital systems. While "셹" is a valid and defined syllable in the Unicode Standard, it is considered rare or obsolete in contemporary Korean usage, as the combination of "ㅖ" with a final consonant cluster like "ㄺ" does not occur in standard modern Korean words, making this character more of a typographic or historical artifact than a commonly used lexical item.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
셹
HTML Hex Encoding
셹
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEC 0x85 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding
0xC179
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000C179
C/C++/Java Escape
\uc179