U+B640 "뙀" Hangul Syllable Ddwass Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B640 "뙀" Hangul Syllable Ddwass is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, specifically representing the sound "ddwass." This syllable is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄸ" (a tense ‘dd’ sound), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (the diphthong ‘wa’), and the final consonant "ㅆ" (a tense ‘ss’ sound), together producing the phonetic value of a single, compact Korean syllable. The character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes over 11,000 precomposed syllabic forms to facilitate efficient text processing and display.

General Properties

Code Point U+B640
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ddwass
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
"ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뙀
HTML Hex Encoding 뙀
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x99 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB640
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B640
C/C++/Java Escape \ub640

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