U+B69D "뚝" Hangul Syllable Ddug Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뚝
U+B69D "뚝" Hangul Syllable Ddug is a precomposed Korean syllable representing the sound "dduk" or "ttuk," which is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄄ (a tense, aspirated 't' or 'd' sound) with the vowel ᅮ ('u') and the final consonant ᆨ ('k'). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, a range designed to encode the 11,172 possible modern Korean syllable blocks without requiring separate encoding of individual jamo (letters). In usage, 뚝 commonly appears in Korean vocabulary as an adverb meaning "suddenly" or "sharply" as in the phrase 뚝 멈추다 (to stop abruptly), and it can also function as a noun or part of compound words, such as in the name of the neighborhood 뚝섬 in Seoul.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B69D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ddug |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "뚜" U+B69C Hangul Syllable Ddu "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뚝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뚝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x9A 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB69D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B69D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub69d |