U+C361 "썡" Hangul Syllable Ssyaeng Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C361 "썡" Hangul Syllable Ssyaeng is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ssyaeng" which combines the initial consonant Ssangssiot (쌍시옷, a doubled "ㅅ" producing a tense "ss" sound) with the medial vowel Ya (ㅑ) and the final consonant Ieung (ㅇ). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes over 11,000 preformed syllable blocks to facilitate efficient text processing for Korean. While not among the most common syllables in everyday Korean vocabulary, it can appear in onomatopoeia, loanwords, or dialectal expressions, and its pronunciation involves a strong, tense initial sibilant followed by a broad "ya" vowel and a soft nasal ending.

General Properties

Code Point U+C361
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ssyaeng
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
"ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 썡
HTML Hex Encoding 썡
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x8D 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC361
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C361
C/C++/Java Escape \uc361

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