What 둕 means
The surrounding Korean word supplies its meaning. Hangul blocks group letters into syllable-shaped units: ᄃ is the starting consonant, ᅮ the vowel, and ᆬ the final consonant cluster. These individual Korean letters are called jamo.
Hangul was created in 1443, and a guide explaining it was published in 1446 to help people write Korean. Its layout groups consonants and vowels into syllable blocks.
The script's name also changed: records from 1894 use 국문, meaning “national writing,” for Korean writing; a 1913 record from a Korean language society uses 한글. Both names refer to the writing system, not a separate meaning of 둕.
A bare 둕 is a syllable sample; the surrounding message, not the block, carries any tone.
Don't infer the sender's tone from 둕 alone.
Who writes 둕
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 둕 appear as separate jamo?
Some apps do not shape separate jamo into a syllable block. Unicode can store this syllable as one precomposed block or separate jamo. As of 2026, support still varies by app. NFC normalization, Unicode's composed form, can combine the sequence into 둕.
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How to type or find 둕
- Search it as
- dunj · 둕 · ㄷㅜㄴㅈ · jamo · batchim · hangul · typing · precomposed syllable
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
둕\B455Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.