U+C0F4 "샴" Hangul Syllable Syam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
샴
U+C0F4 "샴" Hangul Syllable Syam is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅅ" (s), the medial vowel "ㅑ" (ya), and the final consonant "ㅁ" (m). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was designed to encode the thousands of possible syllable blocks that form the basis of Korean text, allowing for efficient digital representation and processing. "샴" itself is a real Korean syllable used in words such as "샴푸" (syampu), the Korean term for shampoo, demonstrating its practical application in everyday language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C0F4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Syam |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "샤" U+C0E4 Hangul Syllable Sya "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 샴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 샴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x83 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC0F4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C0F4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc0f4 |