U+B657 "뙗" Hangul Syllable Ddwaelh Unicode Character
U+B657 "뙗" Hangul Syllable Ddwaelh is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the sound combination of the initial consonant "쁘" (a tense or double version of the alveolar approximant) and the medial vowel "ㅙ" (a diphthong combining "ㅗ" and "ㅐ") followed by the final consonant "ㄹ" (an alveolar liquid). This syllable is part of the modern Korean writing system, though it is extremely rare in everyday language, typically found only in specialized linguistic contexts, historical texts, or as an example in discussions of Hangul's combinatorial structure for tensed consonant clusters. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital representation for any such rare or theoretical Korean syllables that adhere to the language's orthographic rules.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B657 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ddwaelh |
| 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 "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뙗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뙗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x99 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB657 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B657 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub657 |