U+B373 "덳" Hangul Syllable Degs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B373 "덳" Hangul Syllable Degs is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant ㄷ (d), the vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant cluster ㄳ (gs), which collectively produce the phonetic sound "deoks" in standard pronunciation. This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block within Unicode, which encompasses all possible legally encoded syllables that adhere to the systemic consonant vowel consonant structure of modern and middle Korean. Character 덳 is assigned a specific codepoint in the Unicode standard to represent this unique syllable independently as a single character, which is particularly useful for digital text processing and storage in Korean language contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+B373
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Degs
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "데" U+B370 Hangul Syllable De
"ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 덳
HTML Hex Encoding 덳
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x8D 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB373
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B373
C/C++/Java Escape \ub373

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter