U+C3B9 "쎹" Hangul Syllable Ssyeot Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쎹
U+C3B9 "쎹" Hangul Syllable Ssyeot is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "ssyeot." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅆ" (ss) with the medial vowel "ㅕ" (yeo) and the final consonant "ㅌ" (t), which together produce the closed syllable "ssyeot." This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of Korean letters in a single code point for efficient text processing. In modern Korean, "쎹" is not a common word, but it can appear in transcriptions, loanwords, or stylized linguistic contexts where this specific syllable is needed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C3B9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssyeot |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쎹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쎹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x8E 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC3B9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C3B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc3b9 |