Hangul Syllable Ddyeong

Its word-level meaning comes from the Korean word around it. Its three Hangul jamo (letters that combine into a syllable) are ㄸ, ㅕ, and ㅇ.

The history of 뗭 follows Hangul’s syllable-building system. Hangul was created in 1443 to make reading and writing accessible beyond the small class trained in classical writing; the guide explaining it, Hunminjeongeum, was published in 1446. Hangul later appeared in Buddhist religious books, books teaching Confucian ideas, and practical writing. Those shifts belong to the script’s social use, not a separate meaning for this syllable.

Which Hangul jamo make up 뗭?

It combines three jamo into one syllable block. Here ᄄ is the initial consonant, ᅧ the vowel, and ᆼ the final consonant.

Unicode can store it as the precomposed block 뗭 (its jamo already joined) or as the decomposed sequence ᄄ + ᅧ + ᆼ. Fonts arrange the parts in a square syllable cell, so strokes and proportions may vary while the character identity stays the same.

How do I type 뗭?

On the common Korean two-set keyboard, enter Shift+E, U, then D. That layout, called dubeolsik, maps keys to Hangul jamo; a Korean IME assembles them into 뗭. If separate jamo or another syllable appears, check that Korean input and the two-set layout are active.

For text processing, use the composed block when one syllable character is required. Use the decomposed jamo sequence only when that form is intended; normalize to NFC when one composed character is required.