U+C257 "쉗" Hangul Syllable Swed Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쉗
U+C257 "쉗" Hangul Syllable Swed is a specific precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "swed" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅅ (s), the medial vowel ㅞ (we), and the final consonant ㄷ (d). It is encoded in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables to support efficient text processing for the Korean language. While this particular syllable is rarely used in contemporary Korean vocabulary, its inclusion in Unicode ensures that any theoretical or historical usage can be accurately represented in digital text without needing to decompose the syllable into its individual jamo characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C257 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Swed |
| 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 "ᆮ" U+11AE Hangul Jongseong Tikeut |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쉗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쉗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x89 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC257 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C257 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc257 |