U+C3A4 "쎤" Hangul Syllable Ssyeon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쎤
U+C3A4 "쎤" Hangul Syllable Ssyeon is a precomposed Korean syllable that represents the sound "ssyeon," formed from the initial consonant ㅆ (ss), the medial vowel ㅑ (ya), and the final consonant ㄴ (n). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters in a single code point for efficiency and standardization. It is used in written Korean to represent a specific syllable in words and names, particularly in contexts where the tense "ss" sound is required before the "yeon" combination.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C3A4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssyeon |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쎠" U+C3A0 Hangul Syllable Ssyeo "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쎤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쎤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x8E 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC3A4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C3A4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc3a4 |