U+B358 "던" Hangul Syllable Deon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
던
U+B358 "던" Hangul Syllable Deon is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "deon," composed of the initial consonant ᄃ (d) and the vowel ᅥ (eo) with the final consonant ᄂ (n). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes the complete set of modern Korean syllable combinations. In Korean orthography, "던" functions as a grammatical element, commonly appearing as a suffix that denotes past tense or a retrospective mood, as seen in examples such as "하던" (hadon, meaning "was doing") or "먹던" (meokdeon, meaning "was eating"). Its standard representation allows for consistent digital text processing across platforms and applications supporting Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B358 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Deon |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "더" U+B354 Hangul Syllable Deo "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 던 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 던 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x8D 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB358 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B358 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub358 |