U+B653 "뙓" Hangul Syllable Ddwaelb Unicode Character
U+B653 "뙓" Hangul Syllable Ddwaelb is a single precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄸ" (a tense 'dd' sound), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (a diphthong pronounced 'wae'), and the final consonant "ㄼ" (an 'lb' cluster pronounced as 'l' or 'b'). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all 11,172 possible modern syllabic combinations of initial, medial, and final jamo in a single character for efficient text processing. While it is a valid and correctly formed syllable, "뙓" is a rare or obsolete cluster, rarely used in contemporary Korean, and may appear in specialized linguistic contexts or older written works where such a combination has been preserved.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B653 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ddwaelb |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "뙈" U+B648 Hangul Syllable Ddwae "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뙓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뙓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x99 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB653 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B653 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub653 |