U+C303 "쌃" Hangul Syllable Ssalb Unicode Character
U+C303 "쌃" Hangul Syllable Ssalb is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant 'ss' (a tense, double 's' sound), the vowel 'a', and the final consonant 'lb' (a composite of 'l' and 'b'), which together form the single syllable "ssalb." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, specifically encoded for modern Korean text processing to efficiently represent complex syllabic clusters that occur in the Korean language. While "쌃" itself is not a common standalone word in standard Korean vocabulary, it follows the systematic structural rules of Hangul, where consonant and vowel jamo are combined into distinct square-shaped blocks. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures proper representation, storage, and display of such syllables across digital platforms and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C303 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssalb |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "싸" U+C2F8 Hangul Syllable Ssa "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쌃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쌃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x8C 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC303 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C303 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc303 |