U+B465 "둥" Hangul Syllable Dung Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
둥
U+B465 "둥" Hangul Syllable Dung is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "dung" as used in the Korean language. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄃ (d) with the vowel ᅮ (u) and the final consonant ᆼ (ng), following the standard block-building principle of Hangul syllables. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations for the Korean writing system, and it appears in various Korean words, such as 둥글다 (dunggeulda) meaning round.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B465 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Dung |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 둥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 둥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x91 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB465 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B465 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub465 |