U+C39C "쎜" Hangul Syllable Ssek Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쎜
U+C39C "쎜" Hangul Syllable Ssek is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ssk" or a similar tensed consonant-vowel-consonant combination. It is encoded in Unicode to allow for the accurate digital representation of Korean text, where syllables are formed by combining initial consonants, medial vowels, and optional final consonants. This specific syllable is constructed from the initial consonant ㅆ (ssang shiot, a tensed "s" sound) and the vowel ㅒ (yae), though its actual pronunciation and usage in modern Korean is extremely rare, as it does not appear in common vocabulary and is largely considered a theoretical or archaic form within the Hangul syllabary block.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C39C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssek |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쎜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쎜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x8E 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC39C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C39C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc39c |