What 뚴 means
It identifies a syllable; context supplies the word. A lone 뚴 gives you one Hangul syllable. Inside Korean text, neighboring syllables help identify the word and its meaning.
Hangul forms syllable blocks by joining smaller letters, called jamo. In 뚴, ㄸ is the first consonant, ㅜ the vowel, and ㅋ the final consonant. A Korean input method can combine those three letters into one block, which a font then shapes for display.
What came before Hangul?
Korean was written with Chinese characters before Hangul. Idu and hyangchal were systems that adapted Chinese characters to record Korean. Hangul was developed in 1443 and promulgated in 1446 to make writing easier to learn. Its syllable blocks combine individual letters into units like 뚴.
Neutral as a Hangul syllable; it carries no reliable conversational tone on its own.
Do not read the Unicode-style label dduk as 떡, the Korean word for rice cake.
Who writes 뚴
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How to type or find 뚴
- Search it as
- dduk · hangul · jamo · Korean syllable · Korean character · Hangul block
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
뚴\B6B4Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.