U+C418 "쐘" Hangul Syllable Sswael Unicode Character
U+C418 "쐘" Hangul Syllable Sswael is a precomposed hangul syllable used in the Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅆ" (ss) and the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae) with the final consonant "ㄹ" (l). This specific syllable, pronounced similarly to "sswail" in English, is part of the modern Hangul syllabary encoded in the Unicode standard to facilitate digital text processing and display of Korean, where complex syllabic blocks are automatically composed from individual jamo characters. While it may appear in Korean texts, "쐘" is relatively uncommon in everyday vocabulary, demonstrating how Unicode provides a comprehensive character set that includes even less frequently used syllables to ensure accurate representation of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C418 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Sswael |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쐐" U+C410 Hangul Syllable Sswae "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쐘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쐘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x90 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC418 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C418 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc418 |