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쌔

hangul syllable ssae

Hangul Syllable Ssae

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쎄, searched as ssae, is a Korean Hangul syllable block, not an emoji or fixed reaction. Its meaning comes from the Korean word around it, including an emphatic prefix use and a regional dialect word. Do not swap it casually with 쎎, 새, or 싸.

Text symbol

What 쌔 means

It has no fixed meaning by itself; context supplies the word.

Normally 쎄 is one syllable inside a Korean word, built from initial ㅗ plus vowel ㅐ. A 1998 analysis described 쎄- as an emphatic variant related to 새- before color adjectives, roughly adding extra punch to the color.

How do I type 쎄?

Use a Korean input method and enter ㅗ followed by ㅐ.

On the standard two-set layout, ㅗ is ShiftT and ㅐ is O; copy it from the palette above if you only need it once. A decomposed ᄊ ㅐ sequence can look the same, but use NFC precomposed Hangul when software matching fails.

Is 쎄 the same as 쎎?

No; the vowel is different, and the spelling can change the word.

Hangul itself is older than this code point: development was completed in 1443 and the explanatory publication appeared in 1446, made to write Korean more accessibly. Unicode encoded this precomposed block in 1996, a computer-encoding date. As of 2026, the sources checked do not establish a separate earliest attestation for 쎄 itself.

Neutral as Korean text; alone it sets no reliable tone or joke.

A bare 쎄 is not a cute, angry, or laughing reply.

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Who writes 쌔

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What it means when someone sends it to you

4 readings

Read it as that word's syllable; the block has no independent translation.

Don't confuse it with

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Questions people ask

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Why does 쎄 look different in different fonts?

It is font-dependent. A Hangul-aware font draws the block; Unicode defines composition, not one vendor emoji picture.

How to type or find 쌔

Also called
ssae
Search it as
쎄 · 쎎 새 차이 · hangul ssae · korean keyboard ssae · 쎄 입력 · ssae korean syllable
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType C314, then AltX to get 쌔.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable ssae”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType c314, then Enter or Space.
HTML
쌔
CSS
\C314
2-set Korean keyboard
Type ShiftT for ㅗ, then O for ㅐ; the IME composes 쎄.
Jamo sequence
Enter ᄊ ㅐ; a Korean-aware IME shows it as the syllable.
Normalization
If matching fails, normalize; NFC favors precomposed Hangul, NFD stores jamo.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
쌔
HTML hex
쌔
CSS content
content: "\C314";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%8C%94
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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Korean syllables11,623 symbols