U+C496 "쒖" Hangul Syllable Ssweoj Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쒖
U+C496 "쒖" Hangul Syllable Ssweoj is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅆ" (ss), the medial vowel "ㅝ" (weo), and the final consonant "ㅈ" (j). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes syllables in a systematic order based on their constituent jamo components. This specific syllable is relatively rare in natural Korean language usage, often appearing in specialized or technical contexts rather than common vocabulary. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that text processing systems can display and handle this particular Korean syllable consistently across different platforms and applications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C496 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssweoj |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쒖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쒖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x92 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC496 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C496 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc496 |