U+C448 "쑈" Hangul Syllable Ssyo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쑈
U+C448 "쑈" Hangul Syllable Ssyo is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, which is the native alphabet of the Korean language. It visually represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅆ” (a double “s” sound, known as ssang shiot) and the vowel “ㅛ” (the diphthong “yo”), resulting in the single syllable sound “ssyo.” This character is part of the Korean Standard Syllables block in Unicode, which was encoded to facilitate digital text processing by providing a complete set of all logically possible Hangul syllable combinations. In modern usage, the syllable “쑈” appears in vocabulary such as the verb “쑈하다” (to show off or to put on a display), where it often conveys a sense of spectacle or performance.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C448 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssyo |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄊ" U+110A Hangul Choseong Ssangsios "ᅭ" U+116D Hangul Jungseong Yo |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쑈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쑈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x91 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC448 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C448 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc448 |