U+C25C "쉜" Hangul Syllable Swels Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쉜
U+C25C "쉜" Hangul Syllable Swels is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅅ" (s), the medial vowel "ㅞ" (we), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (l). This specific syllable is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, but it is part of the vast set of 11,172 possible Hangul syllable blocks encoded in Unicode to support complete representation of the language for historical, literary, and technical purposes. It demonstrates how Unicode organizes Korean characters through the Hangul Syllables block, allowing each syllable to be addressed as a single code point rather than as individual jamo components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C25C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Swels |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쉜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쉜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x89 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC25C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C25C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc25c |