Hangul Syllable Cah

It is one Korean syllable, not a word with a fixed meaning.

In a Korean word or name, it contributes one syllable. Unicode can decompose this Hangul block into its three jamo, or letters: a starting consonant, a vowel and a final consonant. Text segmentation keeps the standard Korean syllable together.

Hangul’s name changed over centuries

Hangul was devised in 1443–1446 as 훈민정음 (“correct sounds for instructing the people”), also the title of its guidebook. Later names included 정음, 언문 and 반절. In 1894 it became the official script for government documents and was commonly called 국문 or 국서; the name 한글 appears in records from the early 1910s and became widespread after 1928.