U+C4C9 "쓉" Hangul Syllable Sswib Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쓉
U+C4C9 "쓉" Hangul Syllable Sswib is a specific precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, which is used for writing the Korean language. This character represents a distinct phonetic unit formed by the combination of the initial consonant "ss" (ㅆ), the medial vowel "wi" (ㅟ), and the final consonant "b" (ㅂ), resulting in the sound "sswib". As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it allows for the efficient encoding of Korean text without requiring a dynamic composition of individual jamo components. This particular syllable is relatively rare in modern Korean vocabulary but underscores the systematic and comprehensive nature of the Unicode standard in covering all possible syllable combinations in the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C4C9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Sswib |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쓉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쓉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x93 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC4C9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C4C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc4c9 |