U+C265 "쉥" Hangul Syllable Sweng Unicode Character
U+C265 "쉥" Hangul Syllable Sweng is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "sweng" or "shweng." It is formed by combining the initial consonant “ㅅ” (s or sh depending on context) with the medial vowel “ㅞ” (we) and the final consonant “ㅇ” (ng), which together create a single syllabic block. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters as individual code points. In standard Korean usage, “쉥” is relatively rare, appearing primarily in transliterations of foreign words or in specific onomatopoeic terms rather than in common vocabulary. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that Korean text can be accurately represented and processed across digital platforms without requiring complex composition from individual jamo characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C265 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Sweng |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쉥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쉥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x89 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC265 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C265 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc265 |