U+B4C0 "듀" Hangul Syllable Dyu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+B4C0 "듀" Hangul Syllable Dyu is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script used for writing the Korean language, representing the sound "dyu" as in the English word "duke." It is formed from the initial consonant ㄷ (d) and the vowel ㅠ (yu), following the standard block-like composition of Korean syllabic characters. This specific syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the modern Korean alphabet, and it is commonly used in words or loanwords where the "dyu" sound appears, such as in "듀엣" (duet) or "듀스" (deuce).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B4C0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Dyu |
| 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 "ᅲ" U+1172 Hangul Jungseong Yu |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 듀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 듀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x93 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB4C0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B4C0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub4c0 |