U+C3F4 "쏴" Hangul Syllable Sswa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쏴
U+C3F4 "쏴" Hangul Syllable Sswa is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "sswa." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅆ" (ssang shiot, a tense or double s sound) with the vowel "ㅘ" (wa) and no final consonant. This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible 11,172 combinations of Korean letters in a single, precomposed form for efficient text processing. In Korean, "쏴" can appear on its own as a verb stem or in compounds, such as in the word "쏴다" meaning "to fire" or "to shoot," though its usage is less frequent compared to more common syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C3F4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Sswa |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄊ" U+110A Hangul Choseong Ssangsios "ᅪ" U+116A Hangul Jungseong Wa |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쏴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쏴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x8F 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC3F4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C3F4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc3f4 |