U+C443 "쑃" Hangul Syllable Ssoec Unicode Character
U+C443 "쑃" Hangul Syllable Ssoec is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, which represents a phonetic unit rather than an ideogram. It is constructed from the initial consonant ㅆ (ss, a double s sound) and the final consonant ᆨ (g, k), combined with the medial vowel ㅚ (oe, a rounded single vowel sound pronounced like the French "eu" or the English "we" without the w glide). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, specifically the range used to encode all possible syllable combinations of Jamo letters, and its pronunciation roughly corresponds to "ssoek" in English approximation, though it is not a commonly used syllable in everyday contemporary Korean vocabulary. The encoding is part of a systematic approach to represent over 11,000 possible Hangul syllables in Unicode, ensuring correct digital rendering and searchability for the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C443 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssoec |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쑃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쑃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x91 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC443 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C443 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc443 |