U+C408 "쐈" Hangul Syllable Sswass Unicode Character
U+C408 "쐈" Hangul Syllable Sswass is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "sswass." This syllable is formed by combining the initial consonant “ㅆ” (a double s), the medial vowel “ㅘ” (wa), and the final consonant cluster “ㅆ” (ss), resulting in a dense consonant-vowel-consonant structure. It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables in the Korean alphabet as single characters to facilitate text processing and display. In practical use, this character may appear in transcribed foreign words, loanwords, or specific native Korean contexts where the sound occurs, though it is not among the most common syllables in everyday Korean vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C408 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Sswass |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쐈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쐈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x90 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC408 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C408 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc408 |