U+C1B9 "솹" Hangul Syllable Swab Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
솹
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 |