U+C253 "쉓" Hangul Syllable Swegs Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쉓
U+C253 "쉓" Hangul Syllable Swegs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "swegs" (쉓). It is formed from the initial consonant ㅅ (s), the medial vowel ㅞ (we), and the final consonant ㄳ (gs), which is a double final consonant. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, a comprehensive range that encodes all possible syllable combinations in the Korean writing system. As a precomposed form, it allows for efficient text processing and display without requiring dynamic combination of individual jamo characters, though in practice this specific syllable is extremely rare in everyday Korean vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C253 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Swegs |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쉐" U+C250 Hangul Syllable Swe "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쉓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쉓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x89 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC253 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C253 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc253 |