U+B6AE "뚮" Hangul Syllable Ddubs Unicode Character
U+B6AE "뚮" Hangul Syllable Ddubs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㄸ” (a tense, doubled “d” sound), the medial vowel “ㅜ” (a “u” sound), and the final consonant “ㅂ” (a “b” sound), which together form the syllable “ddubs.” This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, encoding the syllable as a single code point rather than as separate jamo components, allowing for efficient text processing and display in digital environments. While “뚮” is a valid and potentially infrequent syllable in Korean, its usage is generally rare, as it does not correspond to a common word in modern Korean vocabulary, though it could appear in specific contexts such as transliterations, archaic texts, or creative language use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B6AE |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ddubs |
| 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 "ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뚮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뚮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x9A 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB6AE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B6AE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub6ae |