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쏸

hangul syllable sswan

Hangul syllable sswan

쏸 is a Korean syllable block with no fixed meaning on its own; the surrounding word supplies its meaning. It appears in 쏸차이, a Korean rendering of Chinese 酸菜, a pickled-vegetable dish. A Korean keyboard input method (IME) builds it from the Hangul letters ㅆ, ㅗ, ㅏ, and ㄴ.

Text symbol

What 쏸 means

By itself, 쏸 has no fixed message.

Hangul syllables get their meaning from the words they belong to. This block combines ㅆ ㅘ ㄴ; alone, it is simply an unexplained Korean syllable.

A Korean news report in 2022 paired 쏸차이 with 酸菜, a Chinese pickled-vegetable dish. Here 쏸 belongs to the Korean rendering of the dish's name.

Why is 쏸 one square?

Hangul letters join into square syllable blocks.

Hangul was created in Joseon, a Korean kingdom, as a writing system for Korean whose sound structure could be explained. The 1443 Sejong Sillok, a Joseon royal record, first mentions Hunminjeongeum, the name of the new script; a book explaining it appeared in 1446.

This block can also be represented by the ordered Hangul letters (jamo) ᄊ ᅪ ᆫ. Together, they form the same syllable.

Neutral inside Korean text; opaque by itself.

Alone, it has no clear meaning; use the surrounding words before assigning it a tone.

Part of the collection

Korean Syllables (Hangul Characters)

Who writes 쏸

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What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings

Read it as one Korean syllable; the surrounding word supplies the meaning.

Don't confuse it with

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Hangul Syllable Sswa

쏴 is ㅆ + ㅘ without the final ㄴ; 쏸 includes it, so the two syllables are different.

Combination ideas

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Korean rendering of Chinese 酸菜, a pickled-vegetable dish.

Questions people ask

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Is 쏸 an emoji?

No. It is a Hangul text character; its appearance comes from the font, not a platform's emoji artwork.

How to type or find 쏸

Search it as: 쏸 · 쏸차이 · Korean jamo · Korean keyboard · IME
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

Windows (Word)

⎇Alt+XType C3F8, then AltX to get 쏸.

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 sswan”.

Linux

⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType c3f8, then Enter or Space.

HTML

쏸

CSS

\C3F8

How do I type 쏸?

Switch your keyboard to Korean input and type ㅆ, ㅗ, ㅏ, then ㄴ. The input method combines ㅗ ㅏ into ㅘ and forms 쏸.

Intermediate blocks

You may see 쏘 and then 쏴 while typing; the Korean input method updates the block as more letters arrive.

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

쏸

HTML hex

쏸

CSS content

content: "\C3F8";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%EC%8F%B8

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On screen

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Code points

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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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Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

ᄀ ᄁ ᄂ ᄃ ᄄ ᄅ ᄆ ᄇ ᄈ ᄉ ᄊ ᄋ

Korean syllables11,623 symbols

ᄀ ᄁ ᄂ ᄃ ᄄ ᄅ ᄆ ᄇ ᄈ ᄉ ᄊ ᄋ