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뚈

hangul syllable ddyol

Hangul syllable ddyol

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뚈 is a Korean Hangul syllable block, not an emoji; it contributes a syllable sound, while the surrounding word supplies its meaning. A 2009 study of Yanbian Korean records it for Mandarin 调儿, glossed “accent, rhythm.”

Text symbol

What 뚈 means

It is a Korean syllable, not a pictogram with a fixed message.

Hangul was devised in 1443 to make Korean easier to write and was published with the Hunminjeongeum, a guide to the script, in 1446. Hangul letters, called jamo, combine into syllable blocks; 뚈 joins the initial consonant ᄄ, vowel ᅭ, and final consonant ᆯ.

The block supplies a syllable's sound, while the surrounding word supplies its meaning. In Unicode, the three jamo can also be represented separately; fonts may position those components differently while keeping the same syllable.

In ordinary Korean text, it reads as a syllable; alone, it looks like a character sample.

Who writes 뚈

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Questions people ask

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Why does 뚈 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type or find 뚈

Also called
ddyol
Search it as
뚈 meaning · Korean Hangul syllable · Hangul jamo · type 뚈
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType B688, then AltX to get 뚈.
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 ddyol”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType b688, then Enter or Space.
HTML
뚈
CSS
\B688
How do I type 뚈?
On the Korean 2-set keyboard layout, press ShiftE, then Y, then F. The input method combines ㄸ ㅛ ㄹ into 뚈.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
뚈
HTML hex
뚈
CSS content
content: "\B688";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%9A%88
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
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

2

Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols