U+C26C "쉬" Hangul Syllable Swi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쉬
U+C26C "쉬" Hangul Syllable Swi is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "swi" as in the English word "sweet." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅅ (s) with the medial vowel ㅟ (wi), and it does not have a final consonant, making it an open syllable. In the Unicode standard, it belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet in a single, precomposed form for efficient text processing. This character is commonly used in written Korean, appearing in words such as 쉬다 (swida), meaning "to rest."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C26C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Swi |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄉ" U+1109 Hangul Choseong Sios "ᅱ" U+1171 Hangul Jungseong Wi |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쉬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쉬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x89 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC26C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C26C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc26c |