U+C47E "쑾" Hangul Syllable Ssup Unicode Character
U+C47E "쑾" Hangul Syllable Ssup is a precomposed syllable within the Hangul blocks of Unicode, representing a phonetic unit in the Korean writing system. It is formed from the initial consonant ㅆ (ssang shiot, representing the "ss" sound), the medial vowel ㅜ (u), and the final consonant ㅍ (pieup, representing the "p" sound), combining to produce the syllable "ssup". While not a particle or a common standalone word, this syllable can appear in the middle of longer Korean words, such as in technical or transliterated terms, or in poetic and dialectal contexts. The character is assigned to the Korean Unicode range specifically to support accurate digital representation and processing of modern Hangul text, ensuring that all possible syllable combinations from the Korean alphabet are available for use in computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C47E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssup |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쑾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쑾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x91 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC47E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C47E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc47e |