U+C442 "쑂" Hangul Syllable Ssoej Unicode Character
U+C442 "쑂" Hangul Syllable Ssoej is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ssoej" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅆ (ss), the medial vowel ㅚ (oe), and the final consonant ㅈ (j). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encompasses all possible syllabic combinations of Korean letters encoded as single code points for efficient text processing. While not among the most frequently used syllables in contemporary Korean, "쑂" is valid for orthographic completeness and can appear in specialized contexts, such as linguistic studies or transliterations. In Unicode terms, it is defined for use in plain text and is distinct from its decomposed form, which would be represented by separate jamo characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C442 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssoej |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쑂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쑂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x91 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC442 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C442 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc442 |