Hangul syllable ssagg

싺 is one precomposed Hangul syllable block made from consonants and a vowel.

Unicode decomposes it as ᄊ + ᅡ + ᆩ: an initial consonant, a vowel and a final consonant. The keyboard-style forms ㅆ, ㅏ, ㄲ can be entered with a Korean IME to form the block.

“Ssagg” is Unicode’s algorithmic label for this component pattern, not an English translation. In Korean text, the other syllables in the word provide its meaning.

How did Hangul syllable blocks develop?

This block belongs to Hangul’s system for building syllables.

Korean differs from Chinese, and before Hangul people adapted Chinese characters to record Korean, including in systems called Idu, Gugyeol and Hyangchal. These approaches were difficult to use for everyday Korean.

King Sejong created Hangul in 1443, initially called Hunminjeongeum. In 1446, a book with that title explained the new script’s purpose and design. Its letters combine into syllable blocks from an initial consonant, a vowel and sometimes a final consonant; 싺 follows that system rather than having a separate origin.

Hangul became the official national writing system in 1894, more than 450 years after its creation. This changed the script’s public status, not a special meaning for 싺.

How do I type 싺?

Use a Korean IME to enter its three jamo.

Enter the keyboard jamo ㅆ, ㅏ, then ㄲ; the input method combines them into one Hangul block.

Unicode can also represent the syllable as the conjoining-jamo sequence ᄊ + ᅡ + ᆩ. Canonical normalization treats that sequence and the precomposed block as equivalent.