U+B4E8 "듨" Hangul Syllable Deuls Unicode Character
U+B4E8 "듨" Hangul Syllable Deuls is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "deuls." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄃ (d), the medial vowel ᅳ (eu), and the final consonant ᆯ (l), with the complex final cluster ᆹ (bs) added to render the "bs" sound, resulting in the syllable block 듨. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF) in Unicode, which includes all 11,172 possible syllable combinations for the Korean alphabet, and it is used in written Korean for specific lexical contexts, though it is not among the most frequently appearing syllables in everyday language. Its inclusion ensures comprehensive representation of the Korean writing system for digital text processing and typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B4E8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Deuls |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "드" U+B4DC Hangul Syllable Deu "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 듨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 듨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x93 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB4E8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B4E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub4e8 |