U+C558 "았" Hangul Syllable Ass Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
았
U+C558 "았" Hangul Syllable Ass is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant ㅇ (which is silent when leading a syllable), the medial vowel ㅏ (a), and the final consonant ㅆ (ss). This specific syllable corresponds to the sound "at" with a tense double-s ending, and it commonly appears as a grammatical element in Korean verb and adjective conjugations, most notably as part of the past tense declarative suffix "-았다" or "-었었다." Its inclusion in Unicode as a single codepoint allows for efficient text processing and display within digital environments for the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C558 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ass |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "아" U+C544 Hangul Syllable A "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 았 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 았 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x95 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC558 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C558 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc558 |