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땓

hangul syllable ddaed

Hangul syllable Ddaed

땓 is a Korean Hangul syllable block, not a complete message by itself. Hangul groups letters into blocks that represent syllables; this one is read as part of a Korean word or phrase. A Korean two-set keyboard can compose it from three letter keystrokes. Its structure belongs to Hangul's 15th-century writing project, not to a pictorial sign invented separately.

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땓 · ddaed · ㄸㅐㄷ · Hangul block · Korean syllable · Dubeolsik keyboard
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What 땓 means

It is one written syllable, not a complete message.

Hangul groups letters into blocks, usually one syllable per block. 땓 combines the initial ᄄ, vowel ᅢ, and final ᆮ; Unicode can also represent the same syllable as a sequence of those three separate Hangul letters. This is a spelling structure, not a picture.

The writing system behind Hangul was designed in 1443 and introduced in the 1446 Hunminjeongeum manuscript. It addressed the difficulty of writing Korean with Chinese characters; earlier methods such as Idu, Gugyeol, and Hyangchal adapted those characters for Korean. These are earlier Korean writing methods, not variants of this syllable. Hangul became Korea's official national writing system in 1894 and lost that status in 1910 under Japanese rule. Later it also became a focus of Korean national identity and preservation. These are shifts in Hangul's public role, not extra meanings of this block.

how do I type 땓?

Use a Korean two-set keyboard layout and enter its three letters.

On Dubeolsik, the common Korean two-set layout, press Shift+E, then O, then E. Those keys enter ㄸ, ㅐ, and ㄷ; a Korean input method combines them as 땓. On another Korean layout, use its equivalent letter keys.

If you enter a vowel immediately after ㄷ, the input method may move ㄷ into the next syllable as its initial consonant. That is normal Hangul composition; use a separator such as a space to commit 땓 first when it needs to stand alone.

Neutral as a Korean spelling unit; by itself, it does not give a full message.

Don't confuse it with

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ㄸㅐㄷ
A sequence of three standalone Hangul letters; a Korean input method can combine them into 땓, but the sequence is not this single precomposed syllable.

Questions people ask

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Why does 땓 look different in another font?

It can. Hangul fonts vary in the shape and placement of component letters inside a block; that design change does not make a different character.

Can a line break split 땓?

No. A Hangul syllable block is treated as one unit for line breaking, so a line break should not fall inside it.

How to type 땓

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType B553, then Alt+X to get 땓.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable ddaed”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType b553, then Enter or Space.
HTML
땓
CSS
\B553
땓 keyboard
On Dubeolsik Korean input, press Shift+E, O, E; the input method combines the letters as 땓.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
땓
HTML hex
땓
CSS content
content: "\B553";
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URL encoded
%EB%95%93
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols