Hangul syllable Caelb

The word around 챏 supplies its meaning.

Hangul builds syllable blocks from jamo, the letter components used to write Korean. Here, ㅊ is the initial consonant, ㅐ the vowel and ㄼ the final consonant cluster, called batchim. The Unicode name “caelb” describes these parts; it is not a translation.

The earliest recorded creation notice for Hangul is a 1443 entry in the Sejongsillok, a Korean royal chronicle. Hunminjeongeum Haerye, an explanatory book about the script, was published in 1446. Hangul was designed to write Korean directly. Earlier methods such as idu, hyangchal and gugyeol adapted Chinese characters to record Korean speech; they are predecessors in Korean writing history, not variants of 챏.

How do I type 챏?

A Korean two-set keyboard composes it from four keystrokes.

On the standard Korean two-set layout, c-o-f-q enter ㅊ, ㅐ, ㄹ and ㅂ. The input method joins ㄹ+ㅂ into the final cluster ㄼ; with Korean input turned off, those keys type Latin letters.

Fonts may draw 챏 differently, but it remains the same text character. A conforming line breaker keeps each Hangul syllable block together.