U+C477 "쑷" Hangul Syllable Ssus Unicode Character
U+C477 "쑷" Hangul Syllable Ssus is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "ssus." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅆ (ssang shiot) and the medial vowel ㅜ (u), combined with the final consonant ㅅ (shiot) as the syllable's batchim or final consonant. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all logically possible combinations of Korean leading consonants, medial vowels, and trailing consonants in a standardized order. While not among the most common syllables in everyday Korean vocabulary, "쑷" can appear in various linguistic contexts, including transcriptions of foreign words, dialectal expressions, or poetic constructions, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation and rendering of the Korean script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C477 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssus |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쑤" U+C464 Hangul Syllable Ssu "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쑷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쑷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x91 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC477 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C477 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc477 |