U+C22D "숭" Hangul Syllable Sung Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
숭
U+C22D "숭" Hangul Syllable Sung is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script used for writing the Korean language. It represents the sound "sung" and is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅅ (s), the medial vowel ㅜ (u), and the final consonant ㅇ (ng). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes complete syllable blocks to simplify text processing and display. In Korean, it appears in common words such as "숭배" (sungbae, meaning worship or admiration) and is an essential component of the language's alphabetic syllabary system, which was created during the 15th century by King Sejong the Great to promote literacy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C22D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Sung |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 숭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 숭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x88 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC22D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C22D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc22d |