U+C459 "쑙" Hangul Syllable Ssyob Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쑙
U+C459 "쑙" Hangul Syllable Ssyob is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used in the Korean language. It represents the phonetic sound "ssyob," formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅆ" (a double s sound) with the vowel "ㅛ" (yo) and the final consonant "ㅂ" (b). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is encoded as a single unit to facilitate efficient text processing and typing in digital environments. Its usage typically appears in Korean text for transliterating foreign words or occasionally in native vocabulary, though it is not a common syllable in everyday Korean speech.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C459 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssyob |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쑙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쑙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x91 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC459 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C459 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc459 |