U+B444 "둄" Hangul Syllable Dyom Unicode Character
U+B444 "둄" Hangul Syllable Dyom is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "dyom." This character is formed from the initial consonant digit "ㄷ," the medial vowel "ㅛ" (which is pronounced "yo"), and the final consonant "ㅁ," though its actual reading in standard Korean is closer to "dyom" due to the combination's orthographic rules. As part of the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), it follows the systematic ordering principle of the Korean writing system, where all logically possible syllables are encoded based on their initial, medial, and final components. In practical use, "둄" appears in some Korean vocabulary, such as in the adverb "둄둄" (dyomdyom), meaning "in a disheveled or messy state," but it is relatively uncommon in everyday speech and primarily exists as a specialized typographic unit within the Unicode standard to ensure accurate digital representation of the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B444 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Dyom |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "됴" U+B434 Hangul Syllable Dyo "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 둄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 둄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x91 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB444 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B444 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub444 |