U+B559 "땙" Hangul Syllable Ddaelt Unicode Character
U+B559 "땙" Hangul Syllable Ddaelt is a specific character within the Hangul script, the native Korean alphabet, representing a single syllable composed of the initial consonant "ㄸ" (a tense, unaspirated sound similar to a hard 'dd'), the medial vowel "ㅐ" (pronounced like the 'ae' in "cat"), and the final consonant "ㄹㅌ" (a combination of 'l' and 't' sounds, realized as a final 'lt' cluster in phonetic transcription). This syllable is extremely rare in modern Korean vocabulary, primarily appearing in ancient or regional dialects and rarely used in contemporary speech or writing, where it might be encountered in historical texts or as a phonetic rendering of foreign loanwords. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that even uncommon historical and linguistic representations of Korean can be digitally preserved and represented accurately.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B559 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ddaelt |
| 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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 땙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 땙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x95 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB559 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B559 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub559 |