U+B387 "뎇" Hangul Syllable Dec Unicode Character
U+B387 "뎇" Hangul Syllable Dec is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄷ" (d), the medial vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant "ㅊ" (ch), which together produce the phonetic value "dech". This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains all 11,172 possible syllables in the Korean alphabet, encoded in a systematic order based on initial, medial, and final components. As a precomposed form, "뎇" allows efficient text processing and display in digital environments without requiring dynamic composition from individual jamo characters. Although it is a valid and standard Hangul syllable, "뎇" is relatively rare in everyday Korean vocabulary, but it may appear in specialized contexts such as historical texts, transcriptions of foreign words, or as a component in compound words.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B387 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Dec |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뎇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뎇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x8E 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB387 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B387 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub387 |