U+C399 "쎙" Hangul Syllable Sseng Unicode Character
U+C399 "쎙" Hangul Syllable Sseng is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, specifically formed by combining the consonant "ㅆ" (ssang shiot, representing the double "ss" sound) with the vowel "ㅔ" (e) and the final consonant "ㅇ" (ieung, which in this syllable position acts as a silent placeholder for a vowel-final sound), resulting in the phonetic value /s͈eŋ/. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block (AC00-D7AF) which encodes all possible syllable combinations of Korean writing through a systematic arrangement based on initial consonants, medial vowels, and optional final consonants. In standard Korean usage, this particular syllable appears in limited contexts, often in borrowed words or expressive vocabulary, as its sound combination is less common than other syllables in everyday native Korean vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C399 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Sseng |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쎙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쎙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x8E 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC399 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C399 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc399 |