What ᅕ means
It marks an aspirated retroflex affricate in historical Chinese transcription.
The historical system appears in the 15th-century Hunminjeongeum, the work that introduced the Korean alphabet. Its descriptions distinguished Chinese consonants made at the teeth (치두음) from those made with the tongue curled back (정치음).
ᅕ belongs to the second series. An affricate begins with a brief stop in airflow and releases into friction; aspiration is the puff of air after release.
Is ᅕ the same as modern ㅊ?
No; ᅕ marks a historical Chinese sound distinction.
Modern Korean ㅊ is an ordinary initial consonant. ᅕ is an obsolete leading jamo used for a different distinction in historical Chinese transcription, so substituting one for the other changes what the notation records.
Historical and technical: it belongs to old-Hangul and Chinese phonetic transcription, outside ordinary modern Korean spelling.
Do not replace it with modern ㅊ; that changes the historical sound distinction.
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Who writes ᅕ
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Questions people ask
1Why does ᅕ show as a box?
Usually, the font lacks support for this archaic jamo. A font with Old Hangul coverage may display it; the text character remains ᅕ even when its glyph is missing.
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How to type or find ᅕ
- Also called
- 정치음 치읓 · jeongchieum chieut
- Search it as
- old Hangul · Hangul jamo · ceongchieum chieuch · jeongchieum · chieut · archaic Hangul letter
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ᅕ\1155Codes and encoding1 code points
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