U+C27A "쉺" Hangul Syllable Swilp Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쉺
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 |