U+B355 "덕" Hangul Syllable Deog Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
덕
U+B355 "덕" Hangul Syllable Deog is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "deog" as spoken in the Korean language. It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄷ" (d), the vowel "ㅓ" (eo), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (g), with the syllable block typically pronounced in a single breath. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character encodes a commonly used syllable found in many Korean words, such as "덕목" (deokmok) meaning virtue or moral principle, and it appears frequently in both formal and informal written Korean texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B355 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Deog |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "더" U+B354 Hangul Syllable Deo "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 덕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 덕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x8D 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB355 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B355 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub355 |