U+C1C8 "쇈" Hangul Syllable Swaen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쇈
U+C1C8 "쇈" Hangul Syllable Swaen is a single precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic sound "swaen," formed by combining the initial consonant ㅅ (s), the medial vowel ㅙ (wae), and the final consonant ㄴ (n). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks composed of Korean jamo characters. In practical use, this specific syllable is rare in standard Korean vocabulary and is primarily encountered in transliterations or specialized contexts rather than common words.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C1C8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Swaen |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쇄" U+C1C4 Hangul Syllable Swae "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쇈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쇈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x87 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC1C8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C1C8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc1c8 |