U+B588 "떈" Hangul Syllable Ddyaen Unicode Character
U+B588 "떈" Hangul Syllable Ddyaen is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ddyaen." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄄ (a tense alveolar plosive "dd") with the medial vowel ㅒ (the diphthong "yae") and the final consonant ᆫ (the alveolar nasal "n"), resulting in a single, encoded character within the Hangul Syllables block. This block was introduced in Unicode version 2.0 to standardize the thousands of possible syllable blocks in Korean, and "떈" itself is not commonly used in standard vocabulary but may appear in phonetic transcriptions, slang, or as a rare lexical form. Its inclusion ensures consistent digital representation and processing of the Korean language across platforms and systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B588 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ddyaen |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "떄" U+B584 Hangul Syllable Ddyae "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 떈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 떈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x96 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB588 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B588 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub588 |