U+C404 "쐄" Hangul Syllable Sswam Unicode Character
U+C404 "쐄" Hangul Syllable Sswam is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ss" (a tense "s" sound), the vowel "wa", and the final consonant "m". This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes over 11,000 precomposed syllables by combining initial, medial, and final jamo components. In practical usage, "쐄" is an extremely rare syllable that does not commonly appear in standard Korean vocabulary, as its phonetic structure is largely non-standard or obsolete in contemporary spoken and written Korean. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that any historical or specialized linguistic text requiring this syllable can be accurately represented in digital systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C404 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Sswam |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쐄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쐄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x90 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC404 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C404 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc404 |