U+C39E "쎞" Hangul Syllable Ssep Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C39E "쎞" Hangul Syllable Ssep is a precomposed syllabic block in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic syllable "ssep." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅆ" (ssang shiot, a doubled "s") with the vowel "ㅔ" (e) and the final consonant "ㅂ" (bieup). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes approximately 11,172 possible syllabic combinations for the Korean alphabet. In practical use, "쎞" is a rare or non-standard syllable in contemporary Korean, as it does not occur in common vocabulary, but it remains accessible for linguistic study or specialized text processing.

General Properties

Code Point U+C39E
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ssep
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
"ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쎞
HTML Hex Encoding 쎞
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x8E 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC39E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C39E
C/C++/Java Escape \uc39e

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