U+C38D "쎍" Hangul Syllable Sselg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C38D "쎍" Hangul Syllable Sselg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "sselg." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅆ (ss), the medial vowel ㅔ (e), and the final consonant ㄺ (lg), combining to create a single block character. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters in a predefined order for efficient digital text processing. In practical terms, "쎍" is a valid but rare syllable in Korean, as it does not commonly appear in everyday vocabulary but demonstrates the systematic and phonetic flexibility of the Hangul script.

General Properties

Code Point U+C38D
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Sselg
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
"ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쎍
HTML Hex Encoding 쎍
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x8E 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC38D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C38D
C/C++/Java Escape \uc38d

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