Hangul syllable Dobs

It is a Korean text syllable, not an emoji.

The block combines ㄷ (initial consonant), ㅗ (vowel), and final ㅄ (a ㅂ+ㅅ consonant cluster). It is a spelling unit inside a Korean word or name. Before a pause, final ㅄ is pronounced like ㅂ: close the lips as for p without releasing a vowel.

Hangul groups consonant and vowel letters into syllable blocks. Unicode's precomposed Hangul syllables follow the repertoire in Korea's KS C 5601 character-set standard (1992); modern Korean spelling rules trace to a unified-spelling draft proposed in 1933. These dates describe encoding and spelling standardization, not the creation of Hangul.

Unicode's canonical normalization—a standard way to compare equivalent text—can represent the same spelling as the three jamo 돖 or as 돖. The forms may look alike while their underlying character sequences differ.

How do I type 돖?

A standard Korean two-set keyboard can assemble it.

Enter ㄷ, ㅗ, ㅂ, ㅅ in that order; the input method combines final ㅂ+ㅅ into ㅄ. On the usual QWERTY mapping, the keys are E, H, Q, T.

If those keys appear as Latin letters, switch the input source to Korean so it can compose the syllable.

What does 돖 mean when someone sends it alone?

Read a lone send as text that needs context.

A 2008 Korean-language study by the National Institute of Korean Language lists 돖 in an anonymous online ID among handles styled like internet coinages. It documents one username, not a shared slang meaning.

If someone sends only 돖, ask which Korean word or name they meant before reading a tone into it.