What 셗 means
셗 is a Hangul syllable block made from three Korean letter components. Unicode’s algorithmic label “syeogs” names initial ㅅ, vowel ㅕ, and final ㄳ; it is not a modern Korean word definition. In present-day Korean, the surrounding word gives the syllable its meaning.
Hangul’s reusable letter system generates this block; 셗 was not invented as a one-off sign. Hangul’s first surviving official record is dated 1443. In 1446, the book Hunminjeongeum explained the new alphabet and how its letters fit into initial, middle, and final positions within syllable blocks.
The same written form has Middle Korean noun senses including “rein” and “duty” or “role.” Its canonical Unicode decomposition, 셗, represents the Korean letter components separately.
How do I type 셗?
In a Korean IME, enter ㅅ, ㅕ, ㄱ, then ㅅ. The last two consonants combine as ㄳ, building the block from 셕 to 셗. On the standard Dubeolsik QWERTY layout, the keys are T-U-R-T; other Korean layouts may use different keys.
The precomposed character 셗 and the decomposed jamo sequence 셗 are distinct text representations. Unicode defines Hangul syllable blocks as units, while software handling raw jamo may expose the components separately.
Technical and historical; in everyday Korean text, its role depends on the word that contains it.
“Rein” is a Middle Korean gloss, not a default modern meaning.
Who writes 셗
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3Questions people ask
2Is “rein” the fixed meaning of 셗?
No. “Rein” is one recorded Middle Korean noun sense for this form; a present-day reading depends on the Korean word and its context.
Can a font display 셗 as separate letters?
Yes, when the text uses the decomposed jamo sequence 셗 or an editor exposes those components. The precomposed character itself is encoded as a syllable block.
How to type or find 셗
- Also called
- syeks
- Search it as
- syeogs Korean word · rein · duty · role · hangul block · Korean character · batchim · double final
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
셗\C157Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.







