U+C269 "쉩" Hangul Syllable Swet Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C269 "쉩" Hangul Syllable Swet is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "swet." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅅ (siot), the medial vowel ㅞ (we), and the final consonant ㅌ (tieut), resulting in a syllable that, while valid in Unicode, is used only rarely or in specific loanwords or archaic contexts rather than in common modern Korean vocabulary. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables created algorithmically from initial, medial, and final jamo, ensuring that every possible valid combination of Korean letters has a unique encoded position for consistent digital text representation.

General Properties

Code Point U+C269
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Swet
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
"ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쉩
HTML Hex Encoding 쉩
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x89 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC269
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C269
C/C++/Java Escape \uc269

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