U+C0E4 "샤" Hangul Syllable Sya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
샤
U+C0E4 "샤" Hangul Syllable Sya is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "sya" as a combination of the consonant "ㅅ" (s) and the vowel "ㅑ" (ya). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic blocks formed from initial consonants, medial vowels, and optional final consonants in the Korean alphabet. In practical use, "샤" appears in various Korean words, such as "샤워" (syawo, meaning shower), and is essential for accurately representing the phonetic structure of the Korean language in digital text and communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C0E4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Sya |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄉ" U+1109 Hangul Choseong Sios "ᅣ" U+1163 Hangul Jungseong Ya |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 샤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 샤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x83 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC0E4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C0E4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc0e4 |