U+C274 "쉴" Hangul Syllable Swil Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C274 "쉴" Hangul Syllable Swil is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, representing the phonetic sound "swil." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅅ (s) with the medial vowel ㅟ (wi) and the final consonant ㄹ (l), though its actual pronunciation in standard Korean is typically rendered as "swil" or "swi-ul" depending on context. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations derived from the Korean alphabet, and it is used in written Korean for words or grammatical forms that require this specific syllable sound, such as in the verb 쉴 (swil), meaning "to rest."

General Properties

Code Point U+C274
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Swil
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
"ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쉴
HTML Hex Encoding 쉴
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x89 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC274
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C274
C/C++/Java Escape \uc274

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