U+C241 "쉁" Hangul Syllable Sweolt Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쉁
U+C241 "쉁" Hangul Syllable Sweolt is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the sound "sweolt," which is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅅ (s), the medial vowel ㅞ (we), and the final consonant ㄾ (lt). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, designed to encode the 11,172 possible combinations of Korean characters as single code points for efficient text processing. In modern Korean usage, the syllable "쉁" is rare and typically appears in specialized vocabulary or historical contexts, as it does not correspond to a common word in everyday speech.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C241 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Sweolt |
| 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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쉁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쉁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x89 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC241 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C241 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc241 |