U+C234 "숴" Hangul Syllable Sweo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C234 "숴" Hangul Syllable Sweo is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "sweo", formed from the initial consonant ㅅ (s), the medial vowel ㅝ (weo), and no final consonant. It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains all possible combinations of Korean letters arranged in a systematic order. This character is used in modern Korean writing to form words such as 숴 (sweo), a relatively rare syllable that can appear in verbs or nouns, and it highlights the phonetic efficiency of the Korean alphabet, or Hangul, in representing complex vowel sounds within a single encoded character.

General Properties

Code Point U+C234
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Sweo
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
"ᅯ" U+116F Hangul Jungseong Weo

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 숴
HTML Hex Encoding 숴
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x88 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC234
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C234
C/C++/Java Escape \uc234

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LV Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LV Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LV
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter