U+C308 "쌈" Hangul Syllable Ssam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쌈
U+C308 "쌈" Hangul Syllable Ssam is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language, representing the sound "ssam" with a tensed initial sibilant. This character is formed from the initial consonant "ㅆ" (ssang shiot) and the vowel "ㅏ" (a), with the final consonant "ㅁ" (mieum) completing the syllable block. In common Korean usage, the word "쌈" refers to a dish of lettuce or other leaves used to wrap meat or rice, and the character itself is an essential part of written Korean, encoded in the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode standard to facilitate digital text representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C308 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssam |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쌈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쌈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x8C 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC308 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C308 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc308 |