U+B660 "뙠" Hangul Syllable Ddwaek Unicode Character
U+B660 "뙠" Hangul Syllable Ddwaek is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄸ" (a tense, unaspirated sound similar to the English 'd' but with tension), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (a diphthong that sounds like "wae" as in the word "wag" with a short 'e' offglide), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (a velar stop sound like the 'k' in "ski"). This syllable belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode Standard, where all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants are encoded sequentially. In practical usage, "뙠" is exceedingly rare or archaic in modern Korean vocabulary, and it would most likely be encountered in older texts, transliterations of foreign words, or as a theoretical construct to demonstrate the systematic arrangement of the Hangul script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B660 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ddwaek |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뙠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뙠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x99 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB660 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B660 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub660 |