U+B343 "덃" Hangul Syllable Dyaelb Unicode Character
U+B343 "덃" Hangul Syllable Dyaelb is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "d" (ㄷ), the medial vowel "yae" (ㅒ), and the final consonant "lb" (ㄼ). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes syllabic clusters phonetically to support efficient digital representation of Korean text. While the syllable "덃" (pronounced roughly as "dyaelb") is not commonly used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, it is a valid and standard syllabic form that may appear in specialized linguistic contexts, archaic words, or phonetic transcriptions. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that all logically possible combinations of Korean letters according to the Hangul jamo system can be consistently stored and displayed across different digital platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B343 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Dyaelb |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "댸" U+B338 Hangul Syllable Dyae "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 덃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 덃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x8D 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB343 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B343 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub343 |