Hangul Syllable Dyaep

It is a Hangul syllable, not a complete word.

Hangul is the Korean writing system; its letters, called jamo, combine into block-shaped syllables. This block spells one syllable; a Korean word containing it supplies the full word meaning.

How do I type 덒?

Enter its three jamo in order on a Korean keyboard.

On a Korean two-set (Dubeolsik) layout, enter ㄷ, then ㅒ, then ㅍ. A Korean IME (input method editor) combines these keystrokes into 덒.

Unicode also defines a canonical decomposition into Hangul jamo. Text normalization can process that component sequence while preserving its canonical equivalence to the syllable.

How does 덒 fit into Hangul's history?

Its history is part of Hangul's syllable-block design.

The first record of Hangul is dated 1443; the explanatory book Hunminjeongeum was published in 1446. Hangul groups consonants and vowels into syllable blocks to make Korean easier to write.

During the Joseon era, some elites opposed Hangul before it became Korea's standard writing system. This block follows the same design of combining letters into syllables.