U+C1BB "솻" Hangul Syllable Swas Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C1BB "솻" Hangul Syllable Swas is a specific precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, which is the native alphabet of the Korean language. It represents a phonetic block combining the initial consonant “ㅅ” (siot, representing an “s” sound), the medial vowel “ㅘ” (wa, a diphthong forming a “wa” sound), and the final consonant “ㅅ” (siot again), thus yielding the syllable sound “swas.” This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of Korean letters in a single character for efficient text processing and display.

General Properties

Code Point U+C1BB
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Swas
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
"ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 솻
HTML Hex Encoding 솻
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x86 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC1BB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C1BB
C/C++/Java Escape \uc1bb

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