U+C0CB "샋" Hangul Syllable Saegs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C0CB "샋" Hangul Syllable Saegs is a specific precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant ㅅ (s), the medial vowel ㅐ (ae), and the final consonant ㄳ (gs). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode standard, where syllables are encoded as single characters rather than as sequences of jamo (individual letters). This particular syllable, while grammatically valid in Korean, is extremely rare in everyday usage and is not commonly found in standard modern Korean vocabulary, appearing more often in historical texts, linguistic studies, or specialized phonetic transcription.

General Properties

Code Point U+C0CB
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Saegs
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "새" U+C0C8 Hangul Syllable Sae
"ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 샋
HTML Hex Encoding 샋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x83 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC0CB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C0CB
C/C++/Java Escape \uc0cb

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