Hangul Jongseong Chieuch

It is Korean ㅊ in a syllable-final position.

Hangul builds syllables from a starting consonant and a vowel, sometimes followed by a final consonant. ᆾ is ㅊ in that final slot, called batchim; alone, it is a jamo—a letter component—not a complete syllable or word.

The Korean script was devised for Korean, whose sounds Chinese characters did not represent directly. Its first record dates to 1443; a guide to the letters, Hunminjeongeum (“Correct Sounds for the Instruction of the People”), appeared in 1446. In Hangul, ㅊ developed from ㅈ by adding a stroke for a stronger sound, and it has both initial and final forms.

Why does final ㅊ sound like ㄷ?

At a word edge, final ㅊ has a clipped t sound.

At a word edge or before another consonant, final ㅊ has the same clipped, unreleased t sound as ㄷ. Before a vowel-starting grammatical ending, it links into the next syllable and sounds like ㅊ there.

Older descriptions compared ㅊ with the opening sound of the Chinese word 侵, meaning “invade.” One historical account places its older articulation at the ridge behind the upper teeth and reports a theory that it shifted to its present position around the 17th century.

How do I type ᆾ?

Type a whole syllable in a Korean IME; it places ㅊ in the final slot.

Unicode treats ᆾ as T, the third position in Hangul’s L–V–T model: L is the leading consonant, V the vowel, and T the optional trailing consonant. An isolated trailing Jamo may need extra filler characters for the leading-consonant and vowel slots, or an editor that handles separate Jamo, to display in a full cell.

OpenType, a font-shaping technology, can select a trailing form from the preceding syllable parts. Support for these Hangul shaping features varies by app as of 2026.