U+D15E "텞" Hangul Syllable Tebs Unicode Character
U+D15E "텞" Hangul Syllable Tebs is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "teps" or "tébs," formed by combining the initial consonant ㅌ (t), the vowel ㅔ (e), and the final consonant ㅄ (bs). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains a complete set of 11,172 syllables used in modern Korean writing. This particular syllable is interesting because its final consonant cluster, ㅄ (bieup-siot), is relatively uncommon in standard Korean syllables, making it more likely to appear in transliterations, archaic texts, or specific linguistic contexts rather than everyday vocabulary. As a unique graphic unit in the Unicode Standard, 텞 ensures that any digital text requiring this precise syllable can be represented consistently across different platforms and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D15E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Tebs |
| 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 "ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 텞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 텞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x85 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD15E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D15E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud15e |