diff --git a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/DataType.java b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/DataType.java
index c8dea96d32..1fbb4103d3 100644
--- a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/DataType.java
+++ b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/DataType.java
@@ -770,6 +770,11 @@ public interface DataType<T> extends Named {
      */
     boolean isArray();
 
+    /**
+     * Whether this data type is an embeddable type.
+     */
+    boolean isEmbeddable();
+
     /**
      * Whether this data type is a UDT type.
      */
diff --git a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/AbstractDataType.java b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/AbstractDataType.java
index 16f0785b05..bb0d037099 100644
--- a/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/AbstractDataType.java
+++ b/jOOQ/src/main/java/org/jooq/impl/AbstractDataType.java
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ import org.jooq.Context;
 import org.jooq.Converter;
 import org.jooq.DataType;
 import org.jooq.Domain;
+import org.jooq.EmbeddableRecord;
 import org.jooq.EnumType;
 import org.jooq.Field;
 import org.jooq.JSON;
@@ -656,6 +657,11 @@ abstract class AbstractDataType<T> extends AbstractNamed implements DataType<T>
             (!isBinary() && tType.isArray());
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public final boolean isEmbeddable() {
+        return EmbeddableRecord.class.isAssignableFrom(tType0());
+    }
+
     @Override
     public final boolean isUDT() {
         return UDTRecord.class.isAssignableFrom(tType0());