U+C388 "쎈" Hangul Syllable Ssen Unicode Character
U+C388 "쎈" Hangul Syllable Ssen is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅆ (ssang shiot, representing a tense "ss" sound), the vowel ㅔ (e), and the final consonant ㄴ (nieun, making an "n" sound), which together produce the phonetic value "ssen." This character, like all precomposed Hangul syllables in Unicode, represents a single orthographic unit that is widely used in Korean text to denote words or morphemes such as the adjective "쎈" meaning "strong" or "tough" in certain contexts. It falls within the Hangul Syllables block spanning U+AC00 to U+D7AF, which encodes 11,172 syllables based on the standard modern Korean alphabet, facilitating efficient digital representation of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C388 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssen |
| 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 "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쎈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쎈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x8E 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC388 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C388 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc388 |