U+C17B "" Hangul Syllable Syelb Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+C17B "" Hangul Syllable Syelb is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅅ" (siot), the medial vowel "ㅖ" (ye), and the final consonant "ㄼ" (rieul bieup). This specific syllable, "셻," is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes the full set of 11,172 possible syllabic combinations in the Korean alphabet using a systematic algorithm rather than individual character definitions. Its pronunciation approximates "syelp" in the standard Romanization of Korean, though it is a very rare or obsolete syllable not commonly found in modern Korean vocabulary, as the final consonant cluster "ㄼ" is unusual in contemporary usage. The inclusion of such syllables in Unicode ensures comprehensive text support for historical or specialized Korean linguistic contexts.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
셻
HTML Hex Encoding
셻
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEC 0x85 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding
0xC17B
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000C17B
C/C++/Java Escape
\uc17b