U+C391 "쎑" Hangul Syllable Sselt Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C391 "쎑" Hangul Syllable Sselt is a precomposed syllable in the Korean writing system, representing the sound "sselt" as part of the modern Hangul syllabary. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅆ (ssang shiot, a doubled 's' sound), the medial vowel ㅔ (e), and the final consonant ㄹㅌ (L+ T) which together create a complex coda. This character was added to the Unicode Standard in version 2.0 under the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial, medial, and final jamo in a single code point for efficient text processing. Its usage is primarily in written Korean, where it represents a specific phonetic syllable that may occur in vocabulary or proper names.

General Properties

Code Point U+C391
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Sselt
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
"ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쎑
HTML Hex Encoding 쎑
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x8E 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC391
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C391
C/C++/Java Escape \uc391

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