U+C0AC "사" Hangul Syllable Sa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
사
U+C0AC "사" Hangul Syllable Sa is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "sa" as a combination of the consonant ㅅ (s) and the vowel ㅏ (a). This specific character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable permutations in modern Korean, and it is widely used in everyday written Korean to form words such as 사랑 (sarang, meaning love) or 사람 (saram, meaning person). Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation across platforms, enabling accurate text processing and display for the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C0AC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Sa |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄉ" U+1109 Hangul Choseong Sios "ᅡ" U+1161 Hangul Jungseong A |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 사 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 사 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x82 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC0AC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C0AC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc0ac |