U+B561 "땡" Hangul Syllable Ddaeng Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
땡
U+B561 "땡" Hangul Syllable Ddaeng is a modern Korean syllable composed of the initial consonant digraph “ㄸ” (a tense, fortis “d” sound) and the vowel “ㅐ” (the “ae” vowel as in “cat”), read as a single syllable pronounced “ddaeng.” In Korean culture, it is famously associated with a traditional children’s game called Ddaeng or a variant of the gong or bell game, where the word is shouted or written to signal a win or a correct answer. It also appears in the name of the popular BTS song “땡” (Ddaeng), reflecting its colloquial and emphatic use in Korean language and media.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B561 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ddaeng |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 땡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 땡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x95 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB561 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B561 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub561 |