U+C38E "쎎" Hangul Syllable Sselm Unicode Character
U+C38E "쎎" Hangul Syllable Sselm is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "sselm," which is formed from the initial consonant ㅆ (ssang shiot, a double s sound), the vowel ㅔ (e), and the final consonant ㅁ (mieum, an m sound). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character was introduced to support the Korean writing system's need for a fully encoded set of all possible syllable combinations, providing a single codepoint for efficient text processing and display. While not a common word in modern Korean, "쎎" demonstrates the systematic structure of Hangul, where each syllable block is constructed from individual jamo units, and it highlights the comprehensive nature of Unicode's encoding of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C38E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Sselm |
| 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 "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쎎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쎎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x8E 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC38E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C38E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc38e |