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셒

hangul syllable sep

Hangul syllable 셒

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셒 is one Korean Hangul syllable block, roughly pronounced “sep,” built from ㅅ, ㅔ, and ㅍ. It contributes a syllable to a word; the complete Korean word supplies the meaning. Alone, it is a fragment, not a standard reaction.

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What 셒 means

셒 is one Korean syllable block, roughly pronounced “sep.”

It combines ㅅ at the start, ㅔ as its vowel, and ㅍ at the end. In a word, it contributes that syllable; the surrounding word supplies the meaning. By itself, it has no standard social reading.

Hangul developed in Korea after Chinese-character writing was already established there. The script's first recorded announcement appears in Joseon records in 1443; a 1446 explanatory book, Hunminjeongeum, describes its purpose—writing Korean speech—and how letters form syllable blocks. The name Hangeul became widely used in connection with a celebration of the script in 1928. Its block-like appearance does not make it a Chinese character: each block arranges letters into a Korean syllable.

Neutral Korean writing; the complete word and message provide the social tone.

Do not treat one syllable as an emotional reaction on its own.

Who writes 셒

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What it means when someone sends it to you

2 readings

It contributes one syllable to the spelling; the complete word supplies the meaning.

Questions people ask

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Is 셒 an emoji?

No. It is a Hangul syllable character whose job is to spell Korean text, not to show a pictorial message.

Why does 셒 look different in different fonts?

Fonts can change the visible proportions of the Hangul block, but it remains the same character.

How to type or find 셒

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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType C152, then AltX to get 셒.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable sep”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType c152, then Enter or Space.
HTML
셒
CSS
\C152
Korean input method
With Korean input active, type ㅅ, then ㅔ, then ㅍ; the input method combines them into 셒.
Canonical jamo
Unicode can also represent it as ᄉ ᅦ ᇁ: the leading consonant, vowel, and final consonant. Normalization can compose that sequence into 셒.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
셒
HTML hex
셒
CSS content
content: "\C152";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%85%92
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

2

Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols