U+B6B8 "뚸" Hangul Syllable Ddweo Unicode Character
U+B6B8 "뚸" Hangul Syllable Ddweo is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄸ" (a tense, double dd) and the medial vowel "ㅝ" (weo). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic blocks formed by Hangul jamo (letters) according to the standard South Korean order, and is used in written Korean to denote a specific sound that may occur in native words, loanwords, or onomatopoeia. While not among the most common syllables in everyday Korean usage, it follows the logical and systematic structure of Hangul, where each syllable is composed of an initial consonant, a vowel, and occasionally a final consonant, with "뚸" itself lacking a final consonant (batchim). Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text can accurately represent this portion of the Korean language for communication, documentation, and data processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B6B8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ddweo |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄄ" U+1104 Hangul Choseong Ssangtikeut "ᅯ" U+116F Hangul Jungseong Weo |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뚸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뚸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x9A 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB6B8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B6B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub6b8 |