U+B3F6 "돶" Hangul Syllable Dwaj Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B3F6 "돶" Hangul Syllable Dwaj is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "d" (ㄷ), the medial vowel "wa" (ㅘ), and the final consonant "j" (ㅈ). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character was introduced to streamline text processing by encoding complete syllables as single code points, eliminating the need to compose them from individual jamo characters. Its usage is virtually nonexistent in contemporary Korean, as the syllable "dwaj" does not correspond to any standard Korean word or common morpheme, making it one of the many technically valid but lexically obscure syllabic blocks defined by the character set.

General Properties

Code Point U+B3F6
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Dwaj
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "돠" U+B3E0 Hangul Syllable Dwa
"ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 돶
HTML Hex Encoding 돶
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x8F 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB3F6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B3F6
C/C++/Java Escape \ub3f6

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