U+B477 "둷" Hangul Syllable Dweolb Unicode Character
U+B477 "둷" Hangul Syllable Dweolb is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄷ" (d), the medial vowel "ㅝ" (weo) to form the diphthong "dweo," and the final consonant "ㄹ" (l) for the syllable-final sound "lb." This character is encoded in the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which was introduced in version 2.0 to efficiently represent all possible syllabic blocks in the Korean alphabet, allowing for streamlined text processing and digital display. Its specific pronunciation "dweolb" is relatively rare in contemporary Korean vocabulary, but it demonstrates the systematic nature of Hangul's syllabic composition, where each character corresponds to a distinct sound unit.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B477 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Dweolb |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "둬" U+B46C Hangul Syllable Dweo "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 둷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 둷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x91 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB477 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B477 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub477 |