U+C4C8 "쓈" Hangul Syllable Sswim Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쓈
U+C4C8 "쓈" Hangul Syllable Sswim is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean phonetic block "sswim," which combines an initial Ssang Siot (ㅆ) sound, a medial vowel akin to "wi" (ㅟ), and a final Mieum (ㅁ) consonant. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block used in modern Korean writing to encode complete syllabic blocks, as opposed to storing individual jamo components separately. Its appearance and usage are defined within the Unicode Standard to support digital text representation of Korean, where each syllable occupies a single code point for efficient processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C4C8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Sswim |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쒸" U+C4B8 Hangul Syllable Sswi "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쓈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쓈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x93 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC4C8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C4C8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc4c8 |