U+C52E "씮" Hangul Syllable Ssinh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C52E "씮" Hangul Syllable Ssinh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ss" (쌍시옷), the vowel "i" (이), and the final consonant "nh" (니은히읗). As part of the Hangul Syllables block, it was encoded in Unicode version 2.0 to efficiently represent the tens of thousands of possible syllable blocks used in the Korean writing system, rather than requiring dynamic composition of individual jamo characters. This specific syllable, while valid in the Unicode standard, is extremely rare in actual Korean language use, often appearing only in specialized or historical contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+C52E
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ssinh
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "씨" U+C528 Hangul Syllable Ssi
"ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 씮
HTML Hex Encoding 씮
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x94 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC52E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C52E
C/C++/Java Escape \uc52e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter