U+C1E0 "쇠" Hangul Syllable Soe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쇠
U+C1E0 "쇠" Hangul Syllable Soe is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "soe" from the combination of the initial consonant ㅅ (s) and the medial vowel ㅚ (oe). It is used in the Korean language to form words such as "쇠" meaning "iron" or "metal" and appears in various compound terms related to tools, strength, or metallic objects. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations in the Korean alphabet to facilitate efficient text processing and display for digital communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C1E0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Soe |
| 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 "ᅬ" U+116C Hangul Jungseong Oe |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쇠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쇠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x87 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC1E0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C1E0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc1e0 |