U+B550 "땐" Hangul Syllable Ddaen Unicode Character
U+B550 "땐" Hangul Syllable Ddaen is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "ddaen". It is formed from the initial consonant ᄄ (a tensed or double "d" sound), the vowel ㅐ (ae), and the final consonant ㄴ (n), classifying it as a syllable block in the modern Korean writing system. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants for modern usage. In practical terms, "땐" is used in Korean text to write specific words or morphemes that require this particular phonetic combination, such as the verb stem "땐" meaning "did tighten" or similar contexts where the tense initial consonant alters meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B550 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ddaen |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "때" U+B54C Hangul Syllable Ddae "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 땐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 땐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x95 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB550 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B550 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub550 |