U+C1E3 "쇣" Hangul Syllable Soegs Unicode Character
U+C1E3 "쇣" Hangul Syllable Soegs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅅ" (s), the medial vowel "ㅚ" (oe), and the final consonant "ㄳ" (gs). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains all possible syllabic forms that can be constructed from the Korean alphabet. This specific syllable, "쇣," is not commonly used in everyday contemporary Korean, as it appears in historical or specialized contexts, and its sound approximates the pronunciation of "soegs" in English notation. The inclusion of such a syllable in the Unicode standard ensures that legacy and rare Korean texts can be accurately represented and exchanged across digital platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C1E3 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Soegs |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쇠" U+C1E0 Hangul Syllable Soe "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쇣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쇣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x87 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC1E3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C1E3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc1e3 |