What 돬 means
By itself, 돬 gives a syllable, not a full word meaning.
Hangul groups letters, or jamo, into syllable blocks. In 돬, ᄃ begins the block, ᅪ is its vowel, and ᆳ ends it. “DWALS” is Unicode’s structural label for those parts, not a translated Korean word.
Hangul was devised to write Korean with syllable blocks. Its creation is dated to 1443; the explanatory book Hunminjeongeum followed in 1446.
Don't confuse it with
1돬
The decomposed jamo sequence for 돬 is 돬; Unicode normalization can combine those separate letters into one block.
Questions people ask
1Why does 돬 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 돬
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType B3EC, then Alt+X to get 돬.
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 dwals”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType b3ec, then Enter or Space.
HTML
돬CSS
\B3ECKorean 2-set keyboard
To type 돬, enter ㄷ, ㅗ, ㅏ, ㄹ, ㅅ in order; the Korean IME joins them.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
돬
HTML hex
돬
CSS content
content: "\B3EC";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%8F%AC
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.