U+C40E "쐎" Hangul Syllable Sswap Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C40E "쐎" Hangul Syllable Sswap is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅆ” (ssang shiot, a double s sound) and the vowel “ㅘ” (wa) followed by the final consonant “ㅍ” (pieup, a p sound). This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet under the modern standard syllabary. As a precomposed form, it allows for efficient text storage and rendering by providing a single code point for the entire syllable rather than requiring separate code points for each jamo component.

General Properties

Code Point U+C40E
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Sswap
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "쏴" U+C3F4 Hangul Syllable Sswa
"ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쐎
HTML Hex Encoding 쐎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x90 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC40E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C40E
C/C++/Java Escape \uc40e

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