U+C356 "썖" Hangul Syllable Ssyaelm Unicode Character
U+C356 "썖" Hangul Syllable Ssyaelm is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "ssyaelm" by combining the initial consonant ㅆ (ss) with the medial vowel ㅒ (yae) and the final consonant cluster ㄻ (lm). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block within the Unicode standard, which was designed to encode all 11,172 possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet to facilitate seamless digital text representation. Although "썖" is a valid and defined syllable in the Unicode repertoire, it is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, as it does not naturally occur in standard Korean words or phrases, making it a rare but structurally sound example of the systematic organization of Hangul in digital encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C356 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssyaelm |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "썌" U+C34C Hangul Syllable Ssyae "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 썖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 썖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x8D 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC356 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C356 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc356 |