U+B44D "둍" Hangul Syllable Dyot Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+B44D "둍" Hangul Syllable Dyot is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script used for the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant digraph "ㄸ" (a tense "d" sound, romanized as "dyo") with the vowel "ㅛ" and the final consonant "ㅌ". This syllable, pronounced approximately as "dyot," is a relatively rare character but demonstrates how Korean writing systematically stacks a leading consonant, a vowel, and an optional trailing consonant into a single square block. Although not a common word in everyday Korean, it exists within the Unicode standard to ensure complete coverage of possible valid Hangul syllables, supporting accurate text representation and processing for the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B44D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Dyot |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "됴" U+B434 Hangul Syllable Dyo "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 둍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 둍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x91 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB44D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B44D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub44d |