Hangul Jongseong Cieuc

It marks ㅈ at the end of a Korean syllable. ᆽ is a trailing Jamo, or final consonant component; Korean calls this position batchim (받침). A Hangul syllable block combines an initial consonant and a vowel, with an optional component at the bottom. Here, that component represents ㅈ.

In standard Korean, final ㅈ sounds like a clipped, unreleased t: when 낮 is said alone, it sounds like 낟. The spelling remains ㅈ; its position at the end changes the sound.

Where did ᆽ come from?

It comes from Hangul’s original initial–medial–final design. Hangul’s 28-letter system was first recorded in 1443, and an explanatory book was published in 1446. Created in 15th-century Korea, Hangul gave Korean speakers a writing system designed for their language instead of requiring Chinese characters for ordinary writing.

Within that design, ᄌ is the initial-position form of this consonant, and ᆽ is its final-position form.

Why does ᆽ look strange?

An isolated final Jamo is missing its syllable frame. As of 2026, a lone final Jamo may appear detached or blank because its display depends on the font and app. Unicode includes filler Jamo—characters that occupy an otherwise empty syllable position—to frame a lone final Jamo, but fonts and apps differ in how they shape it.

A Korean input method builds complete syllable blocks as you type. The isolated ᆽ is useful for discussing encoding, typography, or language learning, rather than for ordinary Korean words.