What 둥 means
It marks a large drum's deep hit. In Korean, standalone 둥 is a sound-word; 둥둥 makes the beat recur. In longer words, read the whole word, not this block alone.
둥 has no separate invention date. The Hangul system behind it was first recorded in 1443 and explained in 1446, to write Korean more easily.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsSent alone: 둥
A drum sound effect; outside Korean context, it may look fragmentary.
Inside a Korean word
One syllable; the whole word supplies the meaning.
Combination ideas
1Repeated large-drum hits.
Questions people ask
1Why does 둥 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 둥
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType B465, then Alt+X to get 둥.
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 dung”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType b465, then Enter or Space.
HTML
둥CSS
\B465Korean 2-set keyboard
Press E-N-D; the IME builds 둥.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
둥
HTML hex
둥
CSS content
content: "\B465";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%91%A5
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.