U+C438 "쐸" Hangul Syllable Ssoels Unicode Character
U+C438 "쐸" Hangul Syllable Ssoels is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅆ” (ssang shiot, a double s sound) with the medial vowel “ㅚ” (oe, a front rounded vowel) and the final consonant “ㄹ” (rieul, an l sound). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is encoded as a single character rather than as a sequence of separate jamo, which allows for efficient text processing and consistent display in Korean digital environments where syllable boundaries and visual spacing are important. This particular syllable, while not the most common in everyday Korean vocabulary, follows the systematic composition of all Hangul syllables and is used in words such as “쐬다” (to be aired or ventilated) or in other dynamic verb forms that require this specific sound structure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C438 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssoels |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쐬" U+C42C Hangul Syllable Ssoe "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쐸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쐸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x90 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC438 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C438 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc438 |