U+C264 "쉤" Hangul Syllable Swess Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C264 "쉤" Hangul Syllable Swess is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant “ㅅ” (s), the medial vowel “ㅞ” (we), and the final consonant “ㅆ” (ss). This syllable does not represent a common standalone word in standard Korean vocabulary but is a valid phonetic construct that can appear as part of larger compound words or in certain dialects. It is encoded in the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which consolidates all possible combinations of initial, medial, and final Hangul letters into single code points for efficient text processing.

General Properties

Code Point U+C264
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Swess
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
"ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쉤
HTML Hex Encoding 쉤
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x89 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC264
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C264
C/C++/Java Escape \uc264

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