U+C310 "쌐" Hangul Syllable Ssak Unicode Character
U+C310 "쌐" Hangul Syllable Ssak is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the sound "ssak" as a combination of the initial consonant 쌍시옷 (ssang siot, a doubled "s" sound) and the vowel ㅏ (a) with the final consonant 기역 (giyeok, "k"). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants to facilitate text processing and display of Korean. Its usage typically appears in transcriptions of native Korean words or loanwords, where the tense "ss" sound distinguishes meaning from its plain counterpart, such as in words like "쌐" itself, though it is relatively rare in common modern vocabulary compared to more frequent syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C310 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssak |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쌐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쌐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x8C 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC310 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C310 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc310 |