U+C3C0 "쏀" Hangul Syllable Ssyen Unicode Character
U+C3C0 "쏀" Hangul Syllable Ssyen is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "ssyen" as a combination of the initial consonant "ss" from Ssang Siot, the medial vowel "ye" from Ye, and the final consonant "n" from Nieun. It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes complete syllables formed algorithmically from initial, medial, and final jamo characters, and it is positioned in the Unicode standard to facilitate digital text processing and display for the Korean language. This character is used in written Korean to convey specific phonetic nuances and is part of the vast set of over 11,000 precomposed Hangul syllables that support the accurate representation of spoken language in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C3C0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssyen |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쎼" U+C3BC Hangul Syllable Ssye "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쏀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쏀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x8F 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC3C0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C3C0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc3c0 |