What 덨 means
It is a spelling unit, not a standalone message. It combines the initial consonant jamo ㄷ, vowel jamo ㅓ, and final consonant jamo ㅆ. Jamo are the letters assembled into Hangul syllable blocks. The Unicode name “deoss” labels this combination; it is not an English translation.
Hangul’s key dates are 1443 and 1446: its creation was recorded in 1443, and a public guide to the new script appeared in 1446. Hangul let people write Korean speech more directly than Chinese characters or earlier mixed systems such as idu and hyangchal, which also used Chinese characters for Korean. Those were earlier writing methods, not ancestors of this individual block.
Hangul shifted from a script used alongside Chinese writing to the basis of modern Korean spelling. A unified spelling draft appeared in 1933 and was partly revised in 1988. As of September 2026, 덨 is not an established Korean word or conversational message on its own.
How do I type 덨?
Type ㄷ, then ㅓ, then ㅆ in a Korean IME. On the standard Dubeolsik two-set layout in September 2026, those are E, J, and Shift+T; the IME assembles them into one block. The keys belong to that layout, so use the component jamo if your keyboard differs.
As of September 2026, Microsoft Word supports hexadecimal Unicode entry; macOS Unicode Hex Input and Linux GTK provide separate routes. If the character appears as a box, the font may not contain its glyph; the code point can still be intact.
Use it as Korean text or an encoding reference; alone, it is not a conversational reaction.
Alone, it gives a reader no established message to decode.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 덨 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 덨
덨\B368Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.