U+C25A "쉚" Hangul Syllable Swelm Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쉚
U+C25A "쉚" Hangul Syllable Swelm is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅅ" (s), the medial vowel "ㅞ" (we), and the final consonant "ㄻ" (lm), which together form the sound "swelm." As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character allows for the direct encoding of a complete Korean syllable without requiring separate combination of jamo (letter components), simplifying text processing and rendering for digital use. It is utilized in written Korean to accurately represent the specific syllable "쉚" as it appears in vocabulary, though it is less common than many other syllables in everyday usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C25A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Swelm |
| 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 "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쉚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쉚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x89 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC25A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C25A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc25a |