U+B5EF "뗯" Hangul Syllable Ddyeoc Unicode Character
U+B5EF "뗯" Hangul Syllable Ddyeoc is a single Hangul syllable representing a phonetically complex and rare sound in modern Korean, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄸ" (a tense, unaspirated double t sound), the medial vowel "ㅕ" (yeo, similar to "yaw"), and the final consonant "ᆨ" (a hard k sound). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes precomposed syllables for the Korean writing system, with its codepoint assigned based on the algorithmic arrangement of the Korean alphabet's initial, medial, and final jamo. Because the syllable "뗯" is not commonly used in everyday vocabulary and does not appear in standard Korean dictionaries, it primarily exists as a theoretically valid but rare orthographic construction, demonstrating the systematic predictability of the Hangul script within Unicode's vast encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B5EF |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ddyeoc |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뗯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뗯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x97 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB5EF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B5EF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub5ef |