U+B55B "땛" Hangul Syllable Ddaelh Unicode Character
U+B55B "땛" Hangul Syllable Ddaelh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound /t͈ɛɭ/ and combining the initial consonant “ㄸ” (a tense, double t sound) with the vowel “ㅐ” (ae) and the final consonant “ㄹㅎ” (lh), though its actual pronunciation merges the final two consonants into a single, tense l-like sound. It falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which contains 11,172 precomposed Korean syllables arranged in a standard phonetic order according to the Korean alphabet, Hangul. While this specific syllable is valid in the Unicode standard for encoding Korean text, it is extremely rare in everyday use and appears primarily in specialized linguistic contexts or as a potential placeholder rather than in common vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B55B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ddaelh |
| 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 "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 땛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 땛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x95 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB55B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B55B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub55b |