U+B2E8 "단" Hangul Syllable Dan Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
단
U+B2E8 "단" Hangul Syllable Dan is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "dan" as a single character. It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄷ" (d) with the vowel "ㅏ" (a) and the final consonant "ㄴ" (n), following the standard syllabic block structure of modern Korean writing. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes all possible syllabic combinations to facilitate efficient text processing. In the Korean language, "단" carries multiple meanings, including "stage" or "level" (段), "end" or "tip" (端), and "cliff" or "abrupt" (斷), and it is used in various contexts such as academic terms like "단계" (stage) and common vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B2E8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Dan |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "다" U+B2E4 Hangul Syllable Da "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 단 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 단 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x8B 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB2E8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B2E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub2e8 |