U+D158 "텘" Hangul Syllable Tels Unicode Character
U+D158 "텘" Hangul Syllable Tels is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅌ" (tieut, representing a "t" sound), the vowel "ㅔ" (e, representing a mid-front vowel), and the final consonant "ㄹㅅ" (rieul-siot, representing an "ls" cluster). As part of Unicode's Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible ten thousand seven hundred twelve precomposed Hangul syllables in alphabetical order based on the Korean standard, this character is used primarily for representing the phonetic sound of the Korean word "텘" in digital text. It belongs to the category of relatively rare syllables, appearing infrequently in modern Korean vocabulary but remaining valid for precise phonetic notation or linguistic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D158 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Tels |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "테" U+D14C Hangul Syllable Te "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 텘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 텘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x85 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD158 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D158 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud158 |