U+C239 "숹" Hangul Syllable Sweonj Unicode Character
U+C239 "숹" Hangul Syllable Sweonj is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes precomposed syllables of the Korean writing system used for the Korean language. This specific syllable, pronounced roughly as "sweonj," represents a phonetic combination of an initial consonant, a medial vowel, and a final consonant, following the structural principles of Hangul where characters are built from individual jamo components. It is used in written Korean to denote a particular sound that may appear in vocabulary, though its frequency in modern usage is low. As with all characters in this block, it enables efficient text representation by providing a single code point for a complete syllable, supporting digital text processing and display in Korean contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C239 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Sweonj |
| 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 "ᆬ" U+11AC Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 숹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 숹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x88 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC239 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C239 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc239 |