U+C26A "쉪" Hangul Syllable Swep Unicode Character
U+C26A "쉪" Hangul Syllable Swep is a precomposed Korean syllable formed from the initial consonant “ㅅ” (s), the vowel “ㅞ” (we), and the final consonant “ㅍ” (p), representing the sound “swep” as part of the Hangul syllabary. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean consonants and vowels in a single code point for efficient text processing. It is used in modern Korean primarily for transliterating foreign words, such as in the word “스웨프” (seu-we-peu) for proper names or loanwords, though it is not a common syllable in native vocabulary. The syllable is displayed as a single block character with the initial consonant on the top left, the vowel on the right, and the final consonant below, maintaining the traditional square layout of Hangul script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C26A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Swep |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쉪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쉪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x89 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC26A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C26A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc26a |