U+C1A1 "송" Hangul Syllable Song Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C1A1 "송" Hangul Syllable Song is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, used in the Korean language to represent the sound "song." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅅ (s), the vowel ㅗ (o), and the final consonant ㅇ (ng), and it appears in numerous common Korean words, such as "송이" (songi, meaning a cluster or unit) and "송편" (songpyeon, a type of rice cake eaten during the Chuseok holiday). This character is encoded in the Unicode Standard as part of the Hangul Syllables block, which includes all possible precomposed syllables for the Korean writing system, facilitating efficient text processing and display for digital environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+C1A1
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Song
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "소" U+C18C Hangul Syllable So
"ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 송
HTML Hex Encoding 송
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x86 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC1A1
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C1A1
C/C++/Java Escape \uc1a1

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT 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=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter