U+C4A2 "쒢" Hangul Syllable Sswenh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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