U+C394 "쎔" Hangul Syllable Ssem Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C394 "쎔" Hangul Syllable Ssem is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing a specific phoneme in the Korean language. It combines the initial consonant "ㅆ" (a double s sound, romanized as "ss") with the vowel "ㅓ" (eo) and the final consonant "ㅁ" (m), resulting in the sound "ssem" as pronounced in words like "쎔쌈" (ssemssam). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of Korean jamo characters for efficient digital text processing and representation.

General Properties

Code Point U+C394
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ssem
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
"ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쎔
HTML Hex Encoding 쎔
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x8E 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC394
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C394
C/C++/Java Escape \uc394

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