U+B679 "뙹" Hangul Syllable Ddoeng Unicode Character
U+B679 "뙹" Hangul Syllable Ddoeng is a precomposed Hangul syllable found in the Unicode Standard's Hangul Syllables block, which encodes the Korean writing system. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄸ" (a tense or fortis 'd' sound similar to 'dd'), the medial vowel "ㅚ" (the diphthong 'oe' pronounced like the 'we' in 'wet'), and the final consonant "ㅇ" (which in this syllable-final position acts as a placeholder, resulting in a simple 'ng' sound). Together, these components form the syllable "뙹," which is read as "ddoeng" in the Revised Romanization of Korean. This character is part of the systematic grouping of Hangul syllables that follow a logical order of initial, medial, and final jamo, allowing for the representation of thousands of possible syllable combinations in the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B679 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ddoeng |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "뙤" U+B664 Hangul Syllable Ddoe "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뙹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뙹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x99 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB679 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B679 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub679 |