U+B70C "뜌" Hangul Syllable Ddyu Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B70C "뜌" Hangul Syllable Ddyu is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "ddyu" and belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode's multilingual plane. It is formed from the initial consonant digraph "ㄸ" (double tikeut) representing a tense or fortis "d" sound, and the vowel "ㅠ" (yu), which together create the syllable commonly used in modern Korean orthography for transcribing loanwords or native vocabulary. This character, like all precomposed Hangul syllables in Unicode, was included to facilitate digital text processing by providing a single codepoint for each complete syllable, thereby avoiding the need for dynamic composition from individual jamo characters. Its encoded position in the range U+AC00 to U+D7AF allows for efficient sorting and rendering in Korean language systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+B70C
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ddyu
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
"ᅲ" U+1172 Hangul Jungseong Yu

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뜌
HTML Hex Encoding 뜌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x9C 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB70C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B70C
C/C++/Java Escape \ub70c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LV Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LV Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LV
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter