U+C3FB "쏻" Hangul Syllable Sswad Unicode Character
U+C3FB "쏻" Hangul Syllable Sswad is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "쌍시옷" (ssang shiot, a doubled 's' sound similar to the English 'ss'), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa), and the final consonant "ㄷ" (digeut, a 'd' sound). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it was encoded to allow efficient text processing and display of Korean characters, where individual jamo are combined into a single glyph for each syllable. This particular syllable is not commonly used in modern Korean vocabulary, but it exists as a valid theoretical and historical construct within the system, demonstrating the modular nature of Hangul that can represent over 11,000 possible syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C3FB |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Sswad |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쏴" U+C3F4 Hangul Syllable Sswa "ᆮ" U+11AE Hangul Jongseong Tikeut |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쏻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쏻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x8F 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC3FB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C3FB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc3fb |