U+B455 "둕" Hangul Syllable Dunj Unicode Character
U+B455 "둕" Hangul Syllable Dunj is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄷ" (d), the medial vowel "ㅜ" (u), and the final consonant "ㄵ" (nj). Unlike modern standard Korean, which typically uses separate jamo characters for writing, this character is part of the Unicode block's vast inventory of precomposed syllables, which were encoded to facilitate the efficient representation of the 11,172 possible Hangul syllables in digital text. The syllable "둕" itself is not commonly used in contemporary Korean vocabulary, as it does not form a standard word or morpheme in spoken or written Korean, but it remains a valid and defined unit within the Unicode standard for encoding and processing Korean text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B455 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Dunj |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "두" U+B450 Hangul Syllable Du "ᆬ" U+11AC Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 둕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 둕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x91 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB455 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B455 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub455 |