U+C2A8 "슨" Hangul Syllable Seun Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
슨
U+C2A8 "슨" Hangul Syllable Seun is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "seun." This character is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅅ (s), the medial vowel ㅡ (eu), and the final consonant ㄴ (n), following the standard syllabic block structure of Hangul. It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations for contemporary Korean. The syllable "슨" appears in various Korean words and names, where it functions as a complete phonetic unit within the language's agglutinative grammar and script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C2A8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Seun |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "스" U+C2A4 Hangul Syllable Seu "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 슨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 슨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x8A 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC2A8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C2A8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc2a8 |