U+B642 "뙂" Hangul Syllable Ddwaj Unicode Character
U+B642 "뙂" Hangul Syllable Ddwaj is a specific precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant 'ㄸ' (a tense, double 'd' sound), the medial vowel 'ㅘ' (a diphthong combining 'o' and 'a'), and the final consonant 'ㅈ' (a 'j' sound), resulting in the pronunciation "ddwaj." This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block within Unicode, which includes all possible syllabic combinations according to the Korean orthographic rules, and while it is valid and encoded for digital text representation, it is considered extremely rare or obsolete in actual Korean vocabulary, appearing primarily in historical texts or as a theoretical construct rather than in common modern usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B642 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ddwaj |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뙂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뙂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x99 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB642 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B642 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub642 |