U+C270 "쉰" Hangul Syllable Swin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쉰
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 |