U+C1CC "쇌" Hangul Syllable Swael Unicode Character
U+C1CC "쇌" Hangul Syllable Swael is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅅ” (s), the medial vowel “ㅙ” (wae), and the final consonant “ㄹ” (l), together producing the sound “swael.” It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes thousands of syllable blocks formed from the modern Korean alphabet. This particular character is used in written Korean to represent a genuine syllable, appearing in contexts such as place names, vocabulary, or historical texts where the sound “swael” occurs. While not among the most common syllables in modern Korean, "쇌" demonstrates the systematic nature of the Hangul writing system, where individual jamo characters are combined into syllabic units to represent spoken language efficiently.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C1CC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Swael |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쇌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쇌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x87 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC1CC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C1CC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc1cc |