U+D271 "퉱" Hangul Syllable Twelt Unicode Character
U+D271 "퉱" Hangul Syllable Twelt is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "twelt" as a combination of the initial consonant "ㅌ" (t), the vowel "ㅞ" (we), and the final consonant "ㄾ" (lt). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic blocks formed by pairing chosen initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants in the Korean writing system. While it is a valid and properly encoded character in the Unicode standard, "퉱" is considered a very rare or archaic syllable in contemporary Korean, as it does not commonly appear in modern vocabulary or everyday usage, and is primarily of interest for linguistic study or historical text representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D271 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Twelt |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "퉤" U+D264 Hangul Syllable Twe "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 퉱 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 퉱 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x89 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD271 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D271 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud271 |