U+D1C8 "퇈" Hangul Syllable Twals Unicode Character
U+D1C8 "퇈" Hangul Syllable Twals is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. This particular character represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅌ” (t), the medial vowel “ㅘ” (wa), and the final consonant “ㄽ” (ls), resulting in the sound “twals.” It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which includes all possible syllabic blocks formed from the Korean alphabet. As a precomposed form, it simplifies text processing and display by encoding the entire syllable as a single code point, rather than requiring the combination of individual jamo characters. This character is valid in modern Korean orthography, though its practical usage depends on the frequency of words containing the "twals" sound in written Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D1C8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Twals |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "톼" U+D1BC Hangul Syllable Twa "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 퇈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 퇈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x87 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD1C8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D1C8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud1c8 |