U+C4A2 "쒢" Hangul Syllable Sswenh Unicode Character
U+C4A2 "쒢" Hangul Syllable Sswenh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ss" (쌍시옷, ᄊ), the medial vowel "we" (ㅞ), and the final consonant "nh" (니은히읗, ᅙ or ᄑ in some analyses), which represents the sound /s͈wen/ or /s͈we̞n/ in the International Phonetic Alphabet. It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, a range that encodes all possible legal syllable blocks in modern Korean, and is used in written Korean primarily for transliteration of foreign words or in specific morphological contexts where such a sequence occurs. This character is relatively rare in everyday Korean text, as the syllable "쒠" or similar forms are more common, and its use underscores the systematic nature of Hangul's phonetic assembly within Unicode's encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C4A2 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Sswenh |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쒜" U+C49C Hangul Syllable Sswe "ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쒢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쒢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x92 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC4A2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C4A2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc4a2 |