U+C3EC "쏬" Hangul Syllable Ssoss Unicode Character
U+C3EC "쏬" Hangul Syllable Ssoss is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅆ" (ssang shiot), the medial vowel "ㅗ" (o), and the final consonant "ㅆ" (ssang shiot) again. This character represents a specific phonetic unit in the Korean language, where the double s sound at both the beginning and end of the syllable creates a distinct, tensed pronunciation. In Unicode, it is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable combinations for Korean, allowing for efficient text processing and display. The character "쏬" is used in selected Korean vocabulary and is most commonly encountered in digital text, though it is relatively rare in everyday written Korean compared to more frequent syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C3EC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssoss |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쏘" U+C3D8 Hangul Syllable Sso "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쏬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쏬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x8F 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC3EC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C3EC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc3ec |