U+C249 "쉉" Hangul Syllable Sweong Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C249 "쉉" Hangul Syllable Sweong is a precomposed syllabic block representing the Korean syllable "sweong," which combines the initial consonant ᄉ (s), the medial vowel ᅰ (we), and the final consonant ᆼ (ng). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes the vast majority of possible syllables in the modern Korean writing system by assembling chosen initial, medial, and final jamo characters. As a specific, rarely used syllable, "쉉" does not correspond to a common Korean word and is primarily encountered in technical encoding contexts, linguistic analysis, or historical transliterations, rather than in everyday language.

General Properties

Code Point U+C249
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Sweong
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
"ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쉉
HTML Hex Encoding 쉉
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x89 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC249
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C249
C/C++/Java Escape \uc249

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT 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=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter