Hangul Syllable Dwalh

It is a Hangul syllable block, not an emoji.

The Unicode name “dwalh” describes the block’s structure: initial ㄷ, vowel ㅘ, and final consonant cluster ㅀ. These component letters are called jamo; the name is structural, not a translation of a Korean word. As of 2026-09-13, 돯 had no established standalone dictionary or messaging meaning; read it as literal Hangul text unless its surrounding words give it a special role.

Hangul was created in 1443 to make writing accessible. The 1446 Hunminjeongeum, a book that presented the script, explained how initial, medial, and final letters form blocks; in 1894, Korea adopted Hangul as an official national script. These dates describe Hangul generally, not a separate history for 돯. Text normalization can store the same syllable as one precomposed block or as its jamo sequence; both display as the same syllable.