What ퟭ means
It marks a historical final-consonant cluster. A jamo is a Hangul letter component; jongseong means the final consonant in a syllable. Its technical name combines double siot and tikeut, names of Korean consonant letters. ퟭ does not form a modern Korean word on its own.
Hangul was devised in the 15th century so Korean speech could be written more directly than through the Chinese characters then used for Korean. Early Hangul writing included a broader range of syllable-final consonants than modern standard Korean.
Over time, standard Korean spelling narrowed and reorganized which final forms it used. In digital text, archaic final jamo such as ퟭ let historical Korean spellings and linguistic analysis represent that older layer.
Why does ퟭ look incomplete?
It supplies only a syllable’s final consonant.
A Hangul syllable is assembled from an initial consonant and a vowel, with an optional final consonant. A lone ퟭ has no initial or vowel to make a full syllable block, so it can look unfinished.
If your font lacks this extended historical set, it may show a missing-glyph box or replacement mark; that is a font-coverage problem. In modern text, this form reads as historical or linguistic notation.
Historical and specialist: it reads as an orthographic component, not ordinary modern Korean writing.
Treat ퟭ as historical spelling notation, not a standalone modern Korean word.
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Who writes ퟭ
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Questions people ask
1Can I use ퟭ in modern Korean?
No. It is not part of ordinary modern Korean spelling. Use it for historical transcription, linguistic discussion, or specialist typesetting.
How to type or find ퟭ
- Search it as
- old Hangul · archaic jamo · jongseong · Hangul final consonant · old Korean spelling · archaic Hangul letter
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ퟭ\D7EDCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.




