U+C397 "쎗" Hangul Syllable Sses Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C397 "쎗" Hangul Syllable Sses is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "sses" which combines the initial consonant "ㅆ" (ss, a tense or double s) with the vowel "ㅔ" (e) and the final consonant "ㅅ" (s). As part of the Hangul Syllables block, this character is encoded as a single code point to facilitate efficient text processing and display in Korean computer systems, where it functions as a distinct, unified glyph rather than being composed from individual jamo components. Its usage is primarily textual and orthographic, appearing in Korean language documents and digital communications to represent a specific syllable without requiring separate combining characters.

General Properties

Code Point U+C397
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Sses
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
"ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쎗
HTML Hex Encoding 쎗
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x8E 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC397
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C397
C/C++/Java Escape \uc397

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