U+C1C4 "쇄" Hangul Syllable Swae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쇄
U+C1C4 "쇄" Hangul Syllable Swae is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅅ (s), the medial vowel ㅙ (wae), and no final consonant, representing the sound "swae" as in the Korean word for "crush" or "smash." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes all possible combinations of initial consonants, medial vowels, and optional final consonants in a systematic encoding to support the efficient representation of Korean text. Its usage appears in modern Korean vocabulary, often in words related to breaking, fragmentation, or processing, such as 분쇄 meaning "pulverization" or "grinding."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C1C4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Swae |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄉ" U+1109 Hangul Choseong Sios "ᅫ" U+116B Hangul Jungseong Wae |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쇄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쇄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x87 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC1C4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C1C4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc1c4 |