U+C391 "쎑" Hangul Syllable Sselt Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쎑
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 |