U+C40A "쐊" Hangul Syllable Sswaj Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쐊
U+C40A "쐊" Hangul Syllable Sswaj is a precomposed Korean syllable representing the sound "sswaj," formed from the initial consonant cluster ㅆ (ss) and the vowel ㅘ (wa) combined with the final consonant ㅈ (j). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was designed to encode all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean writing system in a single code point for efficient digital text processing. In modern Korean, this specific syllable is relatively rare, most commonly appearing in certain onomatopoeic or dialectal words, such as in "쐐기" (sswaegi, meaning "wedge") and its related forms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C40A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Sswaj |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쐊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쐊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x90 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC40A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C40A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc40a |