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hangul syllable swid

Hangul Syllable Swid

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쉳 is a Korean Hangul block for one syllable. In a Korean word it contributes a syllable, while the surrounding word gives the meaning. Its compact shape groups alphabetic letters into a block.

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What 쉳 means

쉳 is a Hangul block for one Korean syllable. It combines ㅅ as the initial consonant, ㅟ as the vowel, and ㄷ as the final consonant. “Swid” is a romanized character label, not a translation; the word containing the syllable supplies its meaning.

Hangul groups alphabetic letters, called jamo, into syllable blocks. Before Hangul, Korean writers also adapted Chinese characters to write Korean; Idu was one such system. Hangul gave Korean letters for its sounds and was designed to be easier to learn and use.

A December 1443 record describes 28 letters; the 1446 Hunminjeongeum, a guide to the new script, explains their forms and combinations. Those dates mark Hangul’s early history, not the first written appearance of this particular syllable.

How do you type 쉳?

Enter the component letters in order with a Korean input method. An input method editor (IME) is the software that joins the letters into one block as you type.

Unicode normalization has two equivalent forms: NFC keeps the composed block, while NFD exposes its jamo sequence. A tool that decomposes text may show ㅅ, ㅟ, and ㄷ separately; NFC composes that sequence back into 쉳.

Who writes 쉳

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Questions people ask

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Why did 쉳 split into jamo?

Normalization. NFD represents the syllable as its separate jamo sequence; NFC composes that equivalent sequence back into 쉳.

How to type or find 쉳

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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType C273, then AltX to get 쉳.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable swid”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType c273, then Enter or Space.
HTML
쉳
CSS
\C273
Korean input method
Enter the components in order: ㅅ, then ㅟ, then ㄷ. The input method joins them as you type.
Unicode normalization
NFC stores the composed block; NFD stores its equivalent jamo sequence.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
쉳
HTML hex
쉳
CSS content
content: "\C273";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%89%B3
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols