U+C0E4 "샤" Hangul Syllable Sya Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LV Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LV Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LV
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter