U+C1A8 "솨" Hangul Syllable Swa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
솨
U+C1A8 "솨" Hangul Syllable Swa is a precomposed Korean syllable representing the sound "swa," formed from the initial consonant ㅅ (s) and the medial vowel ㅘ (wa). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants as single code points for efficient text processing. This character is used in written Korean to form words such as "솨솨" (swaswa), an onomatopoeic term for a rustling or swishing sound, and it demonstrates the systematic nature of the Hangul alphabet, where syllables are assembled from phonetic components and assigned unique character codes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C1A8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Swa |
| 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 "ᅪ" U+116A Hangul Jungseong Wa |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 솨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 솨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x86 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC1A8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C1A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc1a8 |