Hangul syllable 돉

It is a Korean syllable block. Its Hangul jamo (letters that combine in blocks) are ᄃ (initial consonant), ᅩ (vowel), and ᆬ (final consonant pair); their standalone forms are ㄷ, ㅗ, and ㄵ.

King Sejong created Hangul in 1443, first calling it Hunminjeongeum. A book published in 1446 under that name explained its design. Korean and Chinese are different languages, but people relied on Chinese characters to write Korean, so the new letters were designed to be easy to learn. Hangul became Korea’s official national script in 1894. Under Japanese rule after 1910, it lost that status, though intellectuals kept researching, teaching, and writing in it.