U+C422 "쐢" Hangul Syllable Sswaebs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C422 "쐢" Hangul Syllable Sswaebs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system, representing a phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ss" (ㅆ), the vowel "wae" (ㅙ), and the final consonant "bs" (ㅄ). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, a range designed to encode all 11,172 possible preformed syllables of the Korean alphabet. In practical use, 쐢 is exceedingly rare or obsolete in standard modern Korean vocabulary, as its constituent sounds do not form common words, making it primarily a typographic or encoding artifact rather than a frequently encountered linguistic unit.

General Properties

Code Point U+C422
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Sswaebs
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
"ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쐢
HTML Hex Encoding 쐢
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x90 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC422
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C422
C/C++/Java Escape \uc422

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter