U+C4B0 "쒰" Hangul Syllable Sswess Unicode Character
U+C4B0 "쒰" Hangul Syllable Sswess is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of an initial consonant, a medial vowel, and a final consonant cluster, specifically the sound "sswess." It falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which was designed to encode the thousands of possible syllable blocks created from Korean jamo characters. This particular syllable is formed by combining the initial consonant "쌍시옷" (ssang shiot, representing a tense 'ss' sound), the medial vowel "위" (wi), and the final consonant "시옷" (shiot, representing a 't' sound), though in modern Korean usage it is relatively rare and may appear in specialized or historical contexts rather than everyday vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C4B0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Sswess |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쒜" U+C49C Hangul Syllable Sswe "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쒰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쒰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x92 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC4B0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C4B0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc4b0 |