U+C455 "쑕" Hangul Syllable Ssyolt Unicode Character
U+C455 "쑕" Hangul Syllable Ssyolt is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean writing system Hangul, representing the sound "ssyolt." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅆ (ssang shiot, a doubled "s" sound) with the medial vowel ㅛ (yo) and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul, an "l" sound), though its phonetic occurrence in actual spoken Korean is rare. This specific syllable belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode Standard, which encodes all possible combinations of Hangul letters as single code points for efficient text processing and representation. While "쑕" may appear in historical or linguistic contexts, it is not a common word in contemporary Korean usage, where the more frequent sound "ssyot" is represented by other syllables like 쏟.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C455 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssyolt |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쑈" U+C448 Hangul Syllable Ssyo "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쑕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쑕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x91 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC455 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C455 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc455 |