Hangul syllable Caelp

Alone, 챒 gives a syllable, not a word definition. Its jamo (building-block letters) are ㅊ + ㅐ + ㄿ: an initial consonant, a vowel, and a final cluster. The final ㄿ sits in the jongseong position, called 받침 (batchim) in Korean: the consonant part at the block's bottom.

Hangul was created so Koreans could write their language without relying on Chinese characters; its first record dates to 1443, and an explanatory book appeared in 1446. It spread through Buddhist texts, practical books, and object labels, becoming Korea's national writing system in 1894. The 1933 unified spelling proposal, partly revised in 1988, frames modern spelling. Fonts may arrange the same jamo differently.