Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup

ᆲ is a trailing Hangul letter component for the cluster ㄼ. A jongseong is used at the end of a syllable, after its initial consonant and vowel. ㄼ is the compatibility-jamo form used on its own; it denotes the same double batchim, or two-consonant final cluster.

Hangul was devised to give Korean speakers a practical way to write their language. By the mid-fifteenth century, Middle Korean writing already used compound final clusters such as ㄼ. One historical account traces modern ㄼ to the older spelling ㄹㅸ: ㅸ was an earlier consonant whose sound changed, while related forms of the same word helped settle the spelling. The spelling can preserve a word stem even when speech simplifies the final cluster.

How is ㄼ pronounced?

The word determines which part of ㄼ is heard. In 넓다 (“wide”), the cluster keeps ㄹ, the Korean rieul sound, which is l-like at the end of a syllable. In 밟다 (“step on”), it keeps ㅂ, the Korean pieup sound, like p at a syllable end. The spoken forms are written 널따 and 밥따; the following ㄷ is pronounced as a tense t in both.

How do I type ᆲ?

A standard Korean keyboard produces a syllable block, not raw ᆲ. A Korean IME combines typed initial, vowel, and final jamo into a precomposed syllable; enter raw ᆲ using a Unicode-aware character-entry method.

A jongseong normally follows the other parts of a syllable. Shown alone, it may be rendered with filler jamo; font and app shaping can change its spacing or appearance without changing the character.