U+C288 "슈" Hangul Syllable Syu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
슈
U+C288 "슈" Hangul Syllable Syu is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "syu" as in the English word "shoe." It is formed by combining the consonant ㅅ (s) with the vowel ㅠ (yu), and is commonly found in Korean words, such as in the word for "shower" (샤워 is more common for shower, but 슈 appears in loanwords like "슈퍼" for "super") or in the name of the Korean pop group Super Junior, often abbreviated as "슈주." This character is encoded as a single Unicode code point for efficient text processing, and it belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which contains all 11,172 possible precomposed Korean syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C288 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Syu |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄉ" U+1109 Hangul Choseong Sios "ᅲ" U+1172 Hangul Jungseong Yu |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 슈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 슈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x8A 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC288 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C288 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc288 |