U+B5E8 "뗨" Hangul Syllable Ddyeom Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B5E8 "뗨" Hangul Syllable Ddyeom is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㄸ” (a tense or fortis ‘d’ sound), the medial vowel “ㅕ” (yeo), and the final consonant “ㅁ” (m). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode Standard, which encodes syllables in a systematic order based on the Korean writing system’s consonantal and vowel combinations. As a precomposed form, “뗨” allows for efficient text processing and display, preserving the distinct pronunciation and visual structure of the syllable while avoiding the need for dynamic composition of its individual jamo components.

General Properties

Code Point U+B5E8
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ddyeom
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "뗘" U+B5D8 Hangul Syllable Ddyeo
"ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뗨
HTML Hex Encoding 뗨
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x97 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB5E8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B5E8
C/C++/Java Escape \ub5e8

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