U+B460 "둠" Hangul Syllable Dum Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
둠
U+B460 "둠" Hangul Syllable Dum is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed from the initial consonant digraph "ㄷ" (d) and the medial vowel "ㅜ" (u), combined with the final consonant "ㅁ" (m). This character represents the Korean syllabic block for the sound "dum", as pronounced in the Korean language. It is part of the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF) in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables that can be formed from the Korean alphabet. The syllable "둠" can appear in various Korean words, though it is not as common as some other syllables, and its meaning depends entirely on the lexical context in which it is used.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B460 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Dum |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 둠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 둠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x91 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB460 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B460 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub460 |