U+B406 "됆" Hangul Syllable Dwaelm Unicode Character
U+B406 "됆" Hangul Syllable Dwaelm is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing a phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㄷ” (d), the medial vowel “ㅙ” (wae), and the final consonant “ㄻ” (lm), which together form the sound “dwaelm.” This character is part of the extensive Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was encoded to support the efficient representation of the Korean writing system by providing individual codepoints for all possible syllable blocks derived from the Korean alphabet. While the syllable “됆” is valid according to Hangul composition rules, it is extremely rare in modern Korean vocabulary and is not commonly used in everyday writing or speech, primarily existing as a typographically possible but lexical outlier.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B406 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Dwaelm |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "돼" U+B3FC Hangul Syllable Dwae "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 됆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 됆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x90 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB406 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B406 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub406 |