U+C1B8 "솸" Hangul Syllable Swam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
솸
U+C1B8 "솸" Hangul Syllable Swam is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "swam." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅅ (s), the medial vowel ㅘ (wa), and the final consonant ㅁ (m), which together create the phonetic block used in written Korean. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is encoded for digital text representation, allowing the syllable to be displayed and processed consistently across different devices and software. While not a common word in everyday Korean vocabulary, it serves as a functional component of the writing system, demonstrating the systematic and efficient design of Hangul's syllabic structure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C1B8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Swam |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "솨" U+C1A8 Hangul Syllable Swa "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 솸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 솸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x86 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC1B8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C1B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc1b8 |