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Glyph for U+B2E8
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U+B2E8 Hangul Syllable Dan

U+B2E8 was added in Unicode version 2.0 in 1996. It belongs to the block U+AC00 to U+D7AF Hangul Syllables in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Hangul script.

The glyph is a canonical composition of the glyphs Glyph for U+B2E4 Hangul Syllable Da, Glyph for U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+B2E8 forms a Korean syllable block with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The dan () ranking system is used by many Japanese, Okinawan, Korean, and other martial arts organizations to indicate the level of a person's ability within a given system. Used as a ranking system to quantify skill level in a specific domain, it was originally used at a Go school during the Edo period. It is now also used in most modern Japanese fine and martial arts.

Martial arts writer Takao Nakaya claims that this dan system was first applied to martial arts in Japan by Kanō Jigorō (1860–1938), the founder of judo, in 1883, and later introduced to other East Asian countries. In modern Japanese martial arts, holders of dan ranks often wear a black belt; those of higher rank may also wear either red-and-white or red belts depending on the style. Dan ranks are also given for strategic board games such as Go, Japanese chess (shōgi), and renju, as well as for other arts such as the tea ceremony (sadō or chadō), flower arrangement (ikebana), Japanese calligraphy (shodō), and Japanese archery (Kyudo). Today, this ranking system is part of the hallmark, landscape, and cultural "adhesive" of modern Japanese society.

The Chinese character for the word dan (段) literally means step or stage in Japanese, but is also used to refer to one's rank, grade, or station, i.e., one's degree or level of expertise, knowledge and seniority. In Chinese pinyin, however, the same character is pronounced duàn in Mandarin with the 4th tone, and was originally used to mean phase. Dan is often used together with the word kyū () in certain ranking systems, with dan being used for the higher ranks and kyū being used for lower ranks.

Representations

System Representation
45800
UTF-8 EB 8B A8
UTF-16 B2 E8
UTF-32 00 00 B2 E8
URL-Quoted %EB%8B%A8
HTML hex reference 단
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake 단
Encoding: EUC-KR (hex bytes) B4 DC

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 2.0 (1996)
Unicode Name (na) HANGUL SYLLABLE DAN
Unicode 1 Name (na1)
Block (blk) Hangul Syllables
General Category (gc) Other Letter
Script (sc) Hangul
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) canonical
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+B2E4 Hangul Syllable Da Glyph for U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun
Lowercase (Lower)
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+B2E8 Hangul Syllable Dan
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+B2E8 Hangul Syllable Dan
Uppercase (Upper)
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+B2E8 Hangul Syllable Dan
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+B2E8 Hangul Syllable Dan
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+B2E8 Hangul Syllable Dan
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+B2E8 Hangul Syllable Dan
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+B2E8 Hangul Syllable Dan
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)
Alphabetic (Alpha)
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)
Composition Exclusion (CE)
Case Ignorable (CI)
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)
Cased (Cased)
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)
Dash (Dash)
Deprecated (Dep)
Diacritic (Dia)
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)
Emoji Component (EComp)
Emoji Modifier (EMod)
Emoji Presentation (EPres)
Emoji (Emoji)
Extender (Ext)
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+B2E8 Hangul Syllable Dan
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Hangul Syllable Type LVT
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)
Hex Digit (Hex)
Hyphen (Hyphen)
ID Continue (IDC)
ID Start (IDS)
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo)
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)
Join Control (Join_C)
Logical Order Exception (LOE)
Math (Math)
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) No
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+B2E8 Hangul Syllable Dan
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+B2E8 Hangul Syllable Dan
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)
Other ID Continue (OIDC)
Other ID Start (OIDS)
Other Lowercase (OLower)
Other Math (OMath)
Other Uppercase (OUpper)
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)
Quotation Mark (QMark)
Regional Indicator (RI)
Radical (Radical)
Sentence Break (SB) Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD)
Sentence Terminal (STerm)
Terminal Punctuation (Term)
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)
Variation Selector (VS)
Word Break (WB) Alphabetic Letter
White Space (WSpace)
XID Continue (XIDC)
XID Start (XIDS)
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+B2E8 Hangul Syllable Dan
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) LVT Syllable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Hangul LVT Syllable
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+B2E8 Hangul Syllable Dan
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U