U+B42F "됯" Hangul Syllable Doec Unicode Character
U+B42F "됯" Hangul Syllable Doec is a single precomposed syllable in the modern Korean alphabet, representing the sound "doec" which combines the initial consonant digraph "ㄷ" (d) with the medial vowel "ㅚ" (oe) and the final consonant "ㅊ" (ch). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables arranged in a systematic order based on the Korean writing system. It is used in written Korean to denote a syllable that might appear in specific words or transcriptions, though it is relatively uncommon in everyday modern Korean vocabulary. As a precomposed form, it allows for more efficient text rendering compared to using separate jamo characters, ensuring consistent display across different platforms and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B42F |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Doec |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "되" U+B418 Hangul Syllable Doe "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 됯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 됯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x90 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB42F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B42F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub42f |