U+B558 "땘" Hangul Syllable Ddaels Unicode Character
U+B558 "땘" Hangul Syllable Ddaels is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing a single Korean syllable formed from the initial consonant "ㄸ" (a tense, unaspirated double t sound), the vowel "ㅐ" (the vowel ae), and the final consonant "ㄹㅅ" (the composite final consonant ls). This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which contains precomposed syllables arranged algorithmically according to the Korean writing system. It is used in written Korean, though it is relatively rare, appearing in specific native vocabulary or loanword transcriptions. The syllable is phonetically pronounced approximately as "ttaels" in English approximation, with a tense initial sound and a final that combines an l and s sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B558 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ddaels |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 땘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 땘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x95 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB558 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B558 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub558 |