U+C1FC "쇼" Hangul Syllable Syo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쇼
U+C1FC "쇼" Hangul Syllable Syo is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean writing system known as Hangul, representing the sound "syo." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅅ" (s) with the medial vowel "ㅛ" (yo), and it falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, a range that encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet. This character is used in written Korean to denote the syllable that appears in words such as "쇼핑" (syoping, meaning shopping) and "쇼" itself as a loanword for "show." Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation across platforms and devices, facilitating accurate text processing and display for the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C1FC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Syo |
| 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 "ᅭ" U+116D Hangul Jungseong Yo |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쇼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쇼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x87 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC1FC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C1FC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc1fc |