U+C558 "았" Hangul Syllable Ass Unicode Character

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.