U+C250 "쉐" Hangul Syllable Swe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쉐
U+C250 "쉐" Hangul Syllable Swe is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "swe" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅅ (s), the medial vowel ㅞ (we), and no final consonant. It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed by the systematic pairing of initial consonants, medial vowels, and optional final consonants according to the standard Korean orthography. This specific syllable is used in writing Korean words where the sound "swe" occurs, such as in the word 쉐이크 (sweikeu), meaning "shake" borrowed from English.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C250 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Swe |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄉ" U+1109 Hangul Choseong Sios "ᅰ" U+1170 Hangul Jungseong We |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쉐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쉐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x89 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC250 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C250 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc250 |