U+B3FC "돼" Hangul Syllable Dwae Unicode Character
U+B3FC "돼" Hangul Syllable Dwae is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "dwae" as a combination of the initial consonant ᄃ (d) and the medial vowel ᅫ (wae). This syllable is frequently used in Korean vocabulary, most notably as a contracted form of 되어 (doe-eo), which appears in phrases like 돼요 (dwae-yo, meaning "it becomes" or "it is okay") and 안 돼 (an dwae, meaning "not allowed" or "no good"). In Unicode, it is encoded under the Hangul Syllables block (AC00–D7AF) using the standard algorithmic composition method, where initial, medial, and final jamo are combined into a single character for efficient text processing and display. The syllable 돼 is an essential component of everyday Korean spoken and written communication, reflecting the language's systematic syllabic structure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B3FC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Dwae |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄃ" U+1103 Hangul Choseong Tikeut "ᅫ" U+116B Hangul Jungseong Wae |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 돼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 돼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB3FC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B3FC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub3fc |