U+C48C "쒌" Hangul Syllable Ssweols Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쒌
U+C48C "쒌" Hangul Syllable Ssweols is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound /s͈wʌl/ with a tense initial consonant. It is formed by combining the initial consonant “쌍시옷” (ssang shiot, representing a fortis ‘s’ sound) with the medial vowel “ㅝ” (wo) and the final consonant “ㄹ” (rieul). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which was added to the Unicode Standard to encode all possible combinations of Korean jamo letters, allowing for efficient digital representation of the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C48C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssweols |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쒀" U+C480 Hangul Syllable Ssweo "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쒌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쒌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x92 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC48C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C48C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc48c |