U+C31D "쌝" Hangul Syllable Ssaelg Unicode Character
U+C31D "쌝" Hangul Syllable Ssaelg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅆ” (ssang shiot, a tense ‘ss’ sound), the medial vowel “ㅐ” (ae, a vowel sound like the ‘a’ in ‘cat’), and the final consonant “ㄺ” (rieul giyeok, a cluster pronounced as an ‘lg’ sound at the end of a syllable). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes over 11,000 precomposed syllables that cover the full range of possible combinations in the standard Korean alphabet. While the syllable “쌝” is valid according to Korean orthography, it is a rare or artificial construct not commonly found in everyday vocabulary or standard dictionaries, serving primarily to demonstrate the systematic nature of the Unicode Hangul encoding rather than representing a frequently used word in the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C31D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssaelg |
| 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 "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쌝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쌝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x8C 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC31D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C31D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc31d |