U+C316 "쌖" Hangul Syllable Ssaegg Unicode Character
U+C316 "쌖" Hangul Syllable Ssaegg is a precomposed Hangul syllable used in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant ㅆ (ssang shiot, a doubled 's' sound), the medial vowel ㅐ (ae, similar to the 'a' in "cat"), and the final consonant ㄲ (ssang giyeok, a doubled 'k' sound). This syllable, like all Hangul syllables in Unicode, is encoded as a single code point for efficient text processing and display, resulting from the standard rule-based combination of its constituent jamo components in the Korean writing system. As part of the extensive Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), it follows the systematic phonetic layout of Korean, where each character corresponds to a distinct block-shaped syllable. While not a common word in everyday Korean, "쌖" is a valid and correctly formed syllable, typically encountered in specialized vocabulary or technical contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C316 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssaegg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쌔" U+C314 Hangul Syllable Ssae "ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쌖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쌖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x8C 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC316 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C316 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc316 |