U+C238 "숸" Hangul Syllable Sweon Unicode Character
U+C238 "숸" Hangul Syllable Sweon is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅅ” (s), the medial vowel “ㅝ” (weo), and the final consonant “ㄴ” (n). This syllable, romanized as “sweon,” is one of many such blocks used in modern Korean writing to efficiently encode complete syllabic units without needing separate jamo encodings. Like other Hangul syllables, it appears in the Korean alphabet range of Unicode and follows the standard compositional rules of the script, where initial, medial, and final letters stack vertically or horizontally into a single character block. Its practical use is primarily for encoding or displaying Korean text in digital environments, though the syllable “숸” itself is rare in everyday vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C238 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Sweon |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "숴" U+C234 Hangul Syllable Sweo "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 숸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 숸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x88 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC238 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C238 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc238 |