U+C253 "쉓" Hangul Syllable Swegs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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