U+B549 "땉" Hangul Syllable Ddat Unicode Character
U+B549 "땉" Hangul Syllable Ddat is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed from the initial consonant “ㄸ” (a tense “tt” sound), the medial vowel “ㅏ” (the “ah” sound), and the final consonant “ㄹ” (the “l” sound), which together combine to produce the syllabic reading “ddat.” This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which was added to the Unicode Standard to encode all possible syllable combinations arising from the Korean alphabet, enabling efficient digital text representation of the Korean language. While “땉” itself is a valid and defined syllable in Unicode, it is considered rare or obsolete in contemporary Korean usage, as it does not correspond to a common word or morpheme in modern spoken or written Korean, serving instead as a fully functional grapheme for potential linguistic or historical applications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B549 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ddat |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 땉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 땉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x95 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB549 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B549 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub549 |