U+C1D9 "쇙" Hangul Syllable Swaeng Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쇙
U+C1D9 "쇙" Hangul Syllable Swaeng is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script used for writing the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅅ" (s), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㅇ" (ng). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes syllables that are formed algorithmically from the individual jamo characters of the Korean writing system. This specific syllable, pronounced roughly as "swaeng," is not commonly found in everyday Korean vocabulary but may appear in specialized or phonetic contexts, reflecting the systematic and efficient way Unicode handles the vast number of possible Hangul syllable combinations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C1D9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Swaeng |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쇙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쇙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x87 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC1D9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C1D9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc1d9 |