U+D1BC "톼" Hangul Syllable Twa Unicode Character
U+D1BC "톼" Hangul Syllable Twa is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul alphabet, representing the phonetic sound "twa." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄐ (t), the medial vowel ᅪ (wa), and no final consonant (종성), fitting into the standard syllabic block structure of Hangul within the Unicode Hangul Syllables block. This syllable is part of the systematic encoding of all possible CV and CVC combinations in modern Korean, allowing for consistent text processing and rendering across digital platforms. While not as common in everyday Korean vocabulary as some other syllables, it can appear in certain words or loanword transcriptions, contributing to the full representation of the language's phonological inventory in Unicode.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D1BC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Twa |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄐ" U+1110 Hangul Choseong Thieuth "ᅪ" U+116A Hangul Jungseong Wa |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 톼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 톼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x86 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD1BC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D1BC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud1bc |