U+B46C "둬" Hangul Syllable Dweo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B46C "둬" Hangul Syllable Dweo is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "dweo" as a combination of the initial consonant ᄃ (d) and the medial vowel ᅯ (weo). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which contains all possible syllabic combinations formed from the Korean alphabet. The character is used in written Korean to represent words or morphemes that require this specific phonetic cluster, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent representation across digital platforms for the Korean language.

General Properties

Code Point U+B46C
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Dweo
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
"ᅯ" U+116F Hangul Jungseong Weo

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 둬
HTML Hex Encoding 둬
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x91 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB46C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B46C
C/C++/Java Escape \ub46c

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