What 돪 means
It has no fixed meaning alone; it is one Hangul syllable block. It joins ᄃ as the opening consonant, ᅪ as the vowel, and ᆱ as the closing consonant cluster. In Korean, that final consonant position is called batchim. The surrounding word gives the block its role.
Why is 돪 one Hangul block?
Hangul groups letters into blocks to show syllables. The Sejongsillok, a record of King Sejong’s reign, notes Hangul’s creation in 1443; the Hunminjeongeum, a guide explaining the new letters, followed in 1446. Writing Korean with Chinese characters was difficult because they did not map neatly onto Korean sounds and grammar, so King Sejong sought a system people could learn.
Joseon-era books used Hangul for Korean writing, translations, and teaching; modern Korean spelling keeps the block structure. The linked jamo—Hangul letters—are ᄃ, ᅪ, and ᆱ; together they can appear as 돪. Chinese characters were the older writing tradition Hangul was built to address, not ancestors of this syllable.
Neutral in Korean writing; cryptic on its own, without a surrounding word.
Who writes 돪
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Questions people ask
1Why did 돪's parts appear separately?
This can happen when text contains separate conjoining Hangul letters or an app does not join them visually. That sequence is the decomposed form of this block; text normalization can turn it into the precomposed syllable.
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How to type or find 돪
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- Korean syllable block · Hangul jamo · jamo · batchim · Dubeolsik · 2-set Korean keyboard · Korean IME · conjoining jamo
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
돪\B3EACodes and encoding1 code points
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