U+C397 "쎗" Hangul Syllable Sses Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쎗
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 |