U+C462 "쑢" Hangul Syllable Ssyop Unicode Character
U+C462 "쑢" Hangul Syllable Ssyop is a precomposed syllabic block in the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ss” (쌍시옷, a tense or fortis sound), the medial vowel “yo” (요), and the final consonant “p” (비읍). It is encoded as part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which contains 11,172 syllables arranged algorithmically based on the principles of the Korean alphabet, following the standard modern order of initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants. The syllable “쑢” itself is rarely used in everyday Korean vocabulary but exists to ensure complete coverage of all possible phonetic combinations in the writing system, facilitating accurate text processing and rendering for digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C462 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssyop |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쑢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쑢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x91 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC462 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C462 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc462 |