U+C24E "쉎" Hangul Syllable Sweop Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쉎
U+C24E "쉎" Hangul Syllable Sweop is a precomposed syllable in the modern South Korean Hangul writing system, representing a specific combination of the initial consonant "ㅅ" (s), the medial vowel "ㅞ" (we), and the final consonant "ㅍ" (p). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic forms of the Korean alphabet for efficient text processing. It is used in written Korean to denote a phonetic syllable pronounced as "sweop" or a similar sound, though it is a relatively rare or compound syllable not frequently encountered in common Korean vocabulary. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures accurate digital representation and rendering across platforms for specialized or historical Korean texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C24E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Sweop |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쉎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쉎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x89 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC24E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C24E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc24e |