U+C27A "쉺" Hangul Syllable Swilp Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C27A "쉺" Hangul Syllable Swilp is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant “ㅅ” (s), the medial vowel “ㅟ” (wi), and the final consonant “ㄼ” (lb) to represent the sound “swilp.” This character was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable combinations in Korean, and it is used in written Korean to form words or morphemes, though its frequency in everyday language is relatively low compared to more common syllables. Its inclusion ensures that the full inventory of standard Hangul syllables is available for accurate digital text representation and processing in Korean language contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+C27A
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Swilp
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
"ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쉺
HTML Hex Encoding 쉺
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x89 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC27A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C27A
C/C++/Java Escape \uc27a

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