U+B55E "땞" Hangul Syllable Ddaebs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B55E "땞" Hangul Syllable Ddaebs is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, formed from the initial consonant "ㄸ" (a tensed double t sound), the vowel "ㅐ" (the vowel 'ae' as in 'hat'), and the final consonant "ㅄ" (a cluster representing the sounds 'b' and 's'). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllables of modern Hangul in a systematic, precomposed form for efficient text processing. In practical use, "땞" is a relatively rare syllable in modern Korean vocabulary, but it serves as an example of how the Korean alphabet combines consonants and vowels into compact syllabic blocks, reflecting the language's phonological structure.

General Properties

Code Point U+B55E
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ddaebs
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
"ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 땞
HTML Hex Encoding 땞
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x95 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB55E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B55E
C/C++/Java Escape \ub55e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter