U+C43B "쐻" Hangul Syllable Ssoelh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C43B "쐻" Hangul Syllable Ssoelh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ss" (쌍시옷), the medial vowel "oe" (외), and the final consonant "lh" (리을히읗). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllabic forms in Korean according to the Unicode Standard. While it is a valid and encoded syllable, "쐻" is exceedingly rare in contemporary Korean usage, as it appears in no common modern words and is primarily preserved for historical or technical representation within the Unicode repertoire.

General Properties

Code Point U+C43B
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ssoelh
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
"ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쐻
HTML Hex Encoding 쐻
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x90 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC43B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C43B
C/C++/Java Escape \uc43b

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