U+D0E8 "탨" Hangul Syllable Taels Unicode Character
U+D0E8 "탨" Hangul Syllable Taels is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅌ" (t), the medial vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant "ㄹㅅ" (ls) as a single syllabic block. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is codified to facilitate digital text processing and display, allowing for the accurate representation of Korean text where syllables are encoded as individual units rather than sequences of jamo letters. While not commonly used in everyday vocabulary or frequent text corpora, it exists as a valid and well-formed syllable within the standard Korean orthographic repertoire, serving the functional role of enabling comprehensive encoding of all possible Hangul syllable combinations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D0E8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Taels |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "태" U+D0DC Hangul Syllable Tae "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 탨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 탨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x83 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD0E8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D0E8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud0e8 |