U+C428 "쐨" Hangul Syllable Sswaek Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C428 "쐨" Hangul Syllable Sswaek is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "Sswaek," formed from the initial consonant "Ss" (a tensed “S”) the medial vowel "Wae" (a combination of the vowel carriers for "W" and "Ae"), and the final consonant "K." This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block within Unicode, which encodes modern and archaic Korean syllables as individual code points for efficient text processing. In the context of the Korean writing system, "쐨" is a relatively rare syllable, but it follows the systematic compositional rules of Hangul where consonants and vowels are arranged in square blocks. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent representation across digital platforms for accurate rendering of Korean text, even for less common syllables used in specialized vocabulary or phonetic transcription.

General Properties

Code Point U+C428
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Sswaek
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "쐐" U+C410 Hangul Syllable Sswae
"ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쐨
HTML Hex Encoding 쐨
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x90 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC428
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C428
C/C++/Java Escape \uc428

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