U+C378 "썸" Hangul Syllable Sseom Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
썸
U+C378 "썸" Hangul Syllable Sseom is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "sseom." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅆ (ssang shiot, a double "s") and the vowel ㅓ (eo), combined without a final consonant. This syllable appears in modern Korean vocabulary, most notably in the loanword "썸" (sseom), which is a colloquial abbreviation of the English word "some," used to describe a romantic relationship that is ambiguous or in a "talking" stage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C378 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Sseom |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "써" U+C368 Hangul Syllable Sseo "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 썸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 썸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x8D 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC378 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C378 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc378 |