U+C1CD "쇍" Hangul Syllable Swaelg Unicode Character
U+C1CD "쇍" Hangul Syllable Swaelg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅅ" (s), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㄺ" (lg). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet's initial, medial, and final components. While the syllable "쇍" is valid according to Hangul construction rules, it is not commonly used in standard modern Korean vocabulary, making it a rare or perhaps obsolete character in practical language use. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures complete coverage of the Hangul syllabary for historical, scholarly, and digital representation purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C1CD |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Swaelg |
| 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 "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쇍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쇍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x87 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC1CD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C1CD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc1cd |