U+C343 "썃" Hangul Syllable Ssyas Unicode Character
U+C343 "썃" Hangul Syllable Ssyas is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, specifically formed by combining the initial consonant “ㅆ” (ssang shiot, representing a tense “ss” sound), the medial vowel “ㅑ” (ya), and the final consonant “ㅅ” (shiot, representing a “t” sound in syllable-final position). In standard contemporary Korean usage, this syllable does not commonly appear in everyday vocabulary, but it may be encountered in unverified coined terms, phonetic transcriptions, or in technical contexts as a valid, typable character within the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which was designed to encode all possible syllable combinations used in the Korean writing system. Its existence illustrates the systematic, mathematical approach of the Hangul script, where syllables are derived from a finite set of jamo building blocks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C343 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssyas |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쌰" U+C330 Hangul Syllable Ssya "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 썃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 썃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x8D 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC343 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C343 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc343 |