U+C3B9 "쎹" Hangul Syllable Ssyeot Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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