U+C45A "쑚" Hangul Syllable Ssyobs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C45A "쑚" Hangul Syllable Ssyobs is a precomposed Hangul syllable that represents the phonetic combination of the consonants “ㅆ” (a tensed “s” sound) and “ㅂ” (a “b” sound) with the vowel “ㅛ” (a “yo” sound), specifically forming “ssyob” followed by the final consonant “ㅅ” (an “s” sound). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes syllables in a single code point for easier text processing and rendering in the Korean writing system. While “쑚” is a valid and standard syllable in modern Korean, its actual use in everyday vocabulary is rare, making it an example of the many possible but infrequently used combinations that result from the systematic organization of the Korean alphabet.

General Properties

Code Point U+C45A
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ssyobs
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
"ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쑚
HTML Hex Encoding 쑚
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x91 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC45A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C45A
C/C++/Java Escape \uc45a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter