U+B63A "똺" Hangul Syllable Ddwalp Unicode Character
U+B63A "똺" Hangul Syllable Ddwalp is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant 'ㄸ' (dd), the medial vowel 'ㅘ' (wa), and the final consonant 'ㄼ' (lp). This specific character represents a phonetically valid yet extremely rare syllable in Korean, as the cluster 'ㄼ' in the final position is uncommon and the sound "ddwalp" does not correspond to any standard Korean word in common usage. In Unicode, it falls within the Hangul Syllables block, which systematically encodes all possible combinations of initial, medial, and final jamo in accordance with the Korean standard KS X 1001 and the Unicode consortium's unified character model. While it remains largely unused in everyday text, its inclusion serves to ensure complete orthographic coverage for theoretical linguistic or historical purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B63A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ddwalp |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "똬" U+B62C Hangul Syllable Ddwa "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 똺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 똺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x98 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB63A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B63A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub63a |