Korean syllable 채

Context supplies its job. 입은 채로 means “while still wearing it.” In 집 한 채, 한 채 counts one house. Elsewhere, 채 means “barely” or names a stick or racket.

Hangul, the Korean writing system, was created in 1443; an explanatory guide appeared in 1446. It was used alongside Chinese-character writing for Korean translation and teaching before becoming the official national script in 1894. Unicode can also store 채 as two jamo, or Hangul letters, ᄎ and ᅢ; some text tools count them separately.