U+B55C "땜" Hangul Syllable Ddaem Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
땜
U+B55C "땜" Hangul Syllable Ddaem is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "ddaem." It is composed of the initial consonant "ㄸ" (a tensed double 'd' or 'tt') and the vowel "ㅐ" (a sound similar to 'ae' in 'cat'), followed by the final consonant "ㅁ" (an 'm' sound). In Korean, this syllable often functions as a noun meaning "soldering" or "patch" and can also denote a clever or sly trick or scheme in informal contexts. Its inclusion in Unicode under the Hangul Syllables block facilitates the accurate digital representation of modern and historical Korean text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B55C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ddaem |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 땜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 땜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x95 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB55C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B55C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub55c |