U+B540 "땀" Hangul Syllable Ddam Unicode Character
U+B540 "땀" Hangul Syllable Ddam is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, specifically formed by combining the initial consonant digraph "ㄸ" (a tense, double 't' sound) with the vowel "ㅏ" (the 'a' sound) and the final consonant "ㅁ" (the 'm' sound). This syllable functions as a standalone character encoding within the Unicode standard, representing the spoken Korean word for "sweat" or "perspiration." It is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables that were systematically mapped to cover all possible valid combinations of Korean initials, vowels, and finals, enabling efficient digital representation and processing of written Korean without requiring dynamic composition at the text rendering level.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B540 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ddam |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "따" U+B530 Hangul Syllable Dda "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 땀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 땀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x95 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB540 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B540 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub540 |