U+C386 "쎆" Hangul Syllable Ssegg Unicode Character
U+C386 "쎆" Hangul Syllable Ssegg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant ssang-siot (ㅆ, representing a tense "ss" sound) with the vowel ae (ㅐ, sounding like the "a" in "cat") and the final consonant giyeok (ㄱ, a "g" or "k" sound). It represents a phonetic unit in Korean, though it is not commonly found in everyday vocabulary and appears more often in technical contexts, such as in dictionary entries or when transcribing foreign loanwords that contain similar sound combinations. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character follows a systematic encoding pattern where each syllable is assigned a unique code point based on its constituent jamo, allowing for efficient digital text representation of the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C386 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssegg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쎄" U+C384 Hangul Syllable Sse "ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쎆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쎆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x8E 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC386 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C386 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc386 |