U+B59A "떚" Hangul Syllable Ddyaej Unicode Character
U+B59A "떚" Hangul Syllable Ddyaej is a precomposed Korean syllable representing the sound "ddyaej," which begins with the tense consonant "ㄸ" (ssangtikeut) followed by the vowel "ㅒ" (yae) and the final consonant "ㅈ" (jieut) pronounced as [t̚] at the syllable’s end. It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, a range that encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial, medial, and final letters for modern Hangul. Though not a commonly used syllable in everyday Korean vocabulary, its existence demonstrates the systematic completeness of the Unicode Hangul encoding, which allows for the digital representation of rare or archaic syllables alongside more frequent ones. The character is rendered with a distinct visual form where the initial double consonant and the two-stroke vowel combine with the receiving bottom consonant to create a compact, block-shaped syllable typical of the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B59A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ddyaej |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 떚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 떚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x96 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB59A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B59A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub59a |