U+C24C "쉌" Hangul Syllable Sweok Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C24C "쉌" Hangul Syllable Sweok is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "sweok" as formed by the consonant ㅅ (s) and the vowel ㅟ (wi), combined with the final consonant ㅋ (k). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which categorizes all possible combinations of Korean jamo letters into single, encoded characters for efficient text processing. In modern Korean, this specific syllable is rarely used in common vocabulary, as it typically appears in specialized contexts such as loanword transliterations or phonetic transcriptions, rather than standard spoken or written language.

General Properties

Code Point U+C24C
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Sweok
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
"ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쉌
HTML Hex Encoding 쉌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x89 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC24C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C24C
C/C++/Java Escape \uc24c

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