U+C516 "씖" Hangul Syllable Ssyilm Unicode Character
U+C516 "씖" Hangul Syllable Ssyilm is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic value "ssyilm." It is formed by combining the initial consonant “ㅆ” (ssang shiot), the medial vowel “ㅣ” (i), and the final consonant cluster “ㄻ” (rieul-mieum), which is pronounced as a double consonant. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character occupies a codepoint in the range U+AC00 to U+D7AF, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllabic combinations in standard Korean. While “씖” is a valid and structurally correct syllable in Hangul, it is extremely rare in actual Korean vocabulary, as the “-ㄻ” final cluster is uncommon with the vowel “ㅣ” and the tensed initial “ㅆ.” Its primary function is to complete the orthographic system for digital text representation, ensuring that all theoretical Hangul syllables are available for typesetting and linguistic analysis, even if they never appear in natural language usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C516 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssyilm |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "씌" U+C50C Hangul Syllable Ssyi "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 씖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 씖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x94 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC516 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C516 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc516 |