U+C6C4 "웄" Hangul Syllable Uss Unicode Character
U+C6C4 "웄" Hangul Syllable Uss is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "uss" as it appears within the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which was designed to encode all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants in a single character code point. This specific syllable is formed by the initial consonant ㅇ (a placeholder for a vowel-initial sound, acting as a null initial), the medial vowel ㅜ (u), and the final consonant cluster ㅆ (ss), resulting in the syllable "웄". It is primarily used in written Korean for words or morphemes that require this particular consonant-vowel-consonant combination, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation and rendering across different platforms and systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C6C4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Uss |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "우" U+C6B0 Hangul Syllable U "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 웄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 웄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9B 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC6C4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C6C4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc6c4 |