U+C220 "술" Hangul Syllable Sul Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
술
U+C220 "술" Hangul Syllable Sul is a precomposed Hangul syllable that represents the Korean sound "sul," composed of the initial consonant ㅅ (s), the medial vowel ㅜ (u), and the final consonant ㄹ (l). This character is used in the Korean writing system to form words, most notably as the primary term for "alcohol" or "liquor" in modern Korean, appearing in everyday vocabulary such as 소주 (soju) or 맥주 (maekju, beer) when combined with other syllables. In Unicode, it is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of modern Korean Jamo, allowing for efficient digital representation of the language without requiring real-time syllable assembly.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C220 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Sul |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "수" U+C218 Hangul Syllable Su "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 술 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 술 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x88 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC220 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C220 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc220 |