U+B3D9 "동" Hangul Syllable Dong Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
동
U+B3D9 "동" Hangul Syllable Dong is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "dong" which is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄷ" (d) with the vowel "ㅗ" (o) and the final consonant "ㅇ" (ng). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, a system designed to encode all possible syllable combinations of the Korean writing system. The character "동" is commonly used in the Korean language, appearing in words such as "동물" (dongmul) meaning "animal" and "동쪽" (dongjjok) meaning "east side" or "east direction." As a fundamental building block of Korean written communication, it plays a key role in representing vocabulary related to direction, time, and many other concepts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B3D9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Dong |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "도" U+B3C4 Hangul Syllable Do "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 동 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 동 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x8F 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB3D9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B3D9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub3d9 |