U+C270 "쉰" Hangul Syllable Swin Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C270 "쉰" Hangul Syllable Swin is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "swin" or more precisely "shwin" as in the English pronunciation of "sh" combined with "win." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅅ (s or sh) followed by the vowel ㅟ (wi) and the final consonant ㄴ (n), and it is commonly used in the Korean language as the word for "fifty" when counting or as a rice wine known as makgeolli. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes all possible syllabic combinations of Korean letters, and it serves a fundamental role in both written Korean and digital text representation for that language.

General Properties

Code Point U+C270
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Swin
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "쉬" U+C26C Hangul Syllable Swi
"ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쉰
HTML Hex Encoding 쉰
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x89 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC270
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C270
C/C++/Java Escape \uc270

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