U+C359 "썙" Hangul Syllable Ssyaelt Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C359 "썙" Hangul Syllable Ssyaelt is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ss" (ㅆ), the medial vowel "yae" (ㅒ), and the final consonant "lt" (ㄾ). This specific syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet's initial, medial, and final jamo. While it is a valid, encoded character, the syllable "썙" is extremely rare in actual Korean language usage, as it does not correspond to any common native Korean word, Sino-Korean vocabulary, or loanword in standard modern Korean dictionaries. Its existence in the Unicode standard primarily ensures comprehensive coverage for potential historical, linguistic, or technical applications, including transliteration or phonetic transcription, where such a syllable might theoretically appear. Thus, U+C359 stands as a technical placeholder for a theoretically constructable but p

General Properties

Code Point U+C359
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ssyaelt
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
"ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 썙
HTML Hex Encoding 썙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x8D 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC359
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C359
C/C++/Java Escape \uc359

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter