U+C4C8 "쓈" Hangul Syllable Sswim Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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