U+C1B9 "솹" Hangul Syllable Swab Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C1B9 "솹" Hangul Syllable Swab is a precomposed character in the Hangul Syllables block, representing a specific Korean syllable formed by combining the initial consonant ㅅ (s), the medial vowel ㅘ (wa), and the final consonant ㅂ (b), resulting in the sound "swab." It is encoded as a single code point for efficient text processing and display in digital environments, where it is used in written Korean to represent this particular syllable. As part of the comprehensive Hangul Syllables system, which includes over 11,000 precomposed glyphs, it allows for seamless rendering in modern computing without requiring dynamic combination of individual jamo characters.

General Properties

Code Point U+C1B9
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Swab
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
"ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 솹
HTML Hex Encoding 솹
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x86 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC1B9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C1B9
C/C++/Java Escape \uc1b9

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