U+C524 "씤" Hangul Syllable Ssyik Unicode Character
U+C524 "씤" Hangul Syllable Ssyik is a single precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ss" (ㅆ), the vowel "yi" (ㅢ), and the final consonant "k" (ㄱ), sounding roughly like "ss-ik" in English. This character is part of the vast Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet, allowing efficient text representation for digital systems. While it is a valid and recognizable syllable, "씤" is rarely used in everyday Korean vocabulary and is more commonly encountered as a component in proper nouns, technical transliterations, or as a historical or dialectal form within the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C524 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ssyik |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 씤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 씤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x94 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC524 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C524 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc524 |