U+B5EE "뗮" Hangul Syllable Ddyeoj Unicode Character
U+B5EE "뗮" Hangul Syllable Ddyeoj is a single precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄸ" (a tense t sound, romanized as "dd") and the medial vowel "ㅕ" (yeo) followed by the final consonant "ㅈ" (j). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it was encoded to support the complete set of 11,172 possible combinations of initial, medial, and final jamo letters that form valid syllables in Korean orthography. This specific character is used in written Korean to represent a syllable pronounced with a tense initial sound, as in certain native or Sino-Korean vocabulary, and its inclusion in the standard ensures consistent digital representation and text processing for the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B5EE |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ddyeoj |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뗮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뗮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x97 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB5EE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B5EE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub5ee |