U+C4AB "쒫" Hangul Syllable Sswelh Unicode Character
U+C4AB "쒫" Hangul Syllable Sswelh is a composite character belonging to the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, representing a specific syllable formed by the initial consonant 'ss' (a double 's'), the medial vowel 'we', and the final consonant 'lh'. It is encoded in Unicode's CJK Unified Ideographs block as part of the Hangul Syllables range, which systematically organizes tens of thousands of possible syllable blocks that combine phonetic characters from the Korean alphabet. While this particular syllable is obscure and rarely used in modern Korean vocabulary, its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital support for the full theoretical syllabary of Hangul, allowing for accurate representation of historical texts, linguistic research, and phonetic transcription.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C4AB |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Sswelh |
| 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 "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쒫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쒫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x92 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC4AB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C4AB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc4ab |