U+B3FC "돼" Hangul Syllable Dwae Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LV Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LV 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=LV
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter