U+C277 "쉷" Hangul Syllable Swilb Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C277 "쉷" Hangul Syllable Swilb is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅅ" (s), the medial vowel "ㅟ" (wi), and the final consonant "ㄼ" (lb), which together represent the phonetic sound "swilb." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, a encoding standard designed to facilitate electronic text processing for Korean and other languages. While it is a valid and defined syllable, "쉷" is extremely rare in contemporary Korean usage and does not appear in common vocabulary, making it an obscure example of the exhaustive combinatorial possibilities encoded in Unicode to support historical, linguistic, or specialized textual needs.

General Properties

Code Point U+C277
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Swilb
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
"ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쉷
HTML Hex Encoding 쉷
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x89 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC277
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C277
C/C++/Java Escape \uc277

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