U+C4C9 "쓉" Hangul Syllable Sswib Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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