U+C1C2 "쇂" Hangul Syllable Swap Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C1C2 "쇂" Hangul Syllable Swap is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅅ" (s), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa), and the final consonant "ㅍ" (p). It forms part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which systematically encodes all possible syllables formed from the Korean alphabet. This specific character is used in modern Korean orthography to write words that require the "swap" sound as defined by standard syllable formation rules, though its actual frequency in everyday text is relatively low compared to more common Hangul syllables.

General Properties

Code Point U+C1C2
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Swap
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
"ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쇂
HTML Hex Encoding 쇂
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x87 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC1C2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C1C2
C/C++/Java Escape \uc1c2

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