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챀

hangul syllable cak

Hangul syllable Cak

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On a Korean 2-beolsik keyboard, type c, k, then z to form 챀. It is one Hangul syllable block built from the jamo (letters) ㅊ, ㅏ, and final ㅋ; any word meaning comes from the Korean word around it.

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What 챀 means

On Korean 2-beolsik, type c, k, then z.

Those keys enter ㅊ, ㅏ, and final ㅋ; a Korean input method (IME) joins the letters into 챀. Other keyboard layouts can assign different keys.

The result is a precomposed Hangul block. Text can also store the same syllable as separate jamo; software may need Unicode normalization to treat those equivalent encodings as the same text.

What does 챀 mean?

It is a Hangul syllable, not a standalone word.

Read it roughly as “chak”: the first letter ㅊ, vowel ㅏ, and final ㅋ form one sound block. Korean words supply lexical meaning; this block alone does not name a separate idea.

Two key dates are 1443 and 1446: the Sejong Sillok, a Korean court chronicle, records Hangul’s creation in 1443, and the explanatory book Hunminjeongeum appeared in 1446. Hangul was designed to write Korean speech directly, rather than through Chinese characters.

What should I make of 챀 in a message?

Read it as a syllable; ask for the word around it.

By itself, 챀 gives you one syllable, not a full word. If it arrives alone, ask whether it belongs to a longer Korean word or an unfinished input sequence.

Who writes 챀

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What it means when someone sends it to you

2 readings

Read 챀 as one syllable; the rest of the word supplies the meaning.

Questions people ask

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Why can 챀 look different in different fonts?

Fonts vary in the shape, weight, and spacing of Hangul letters. The underlying character remains 챀.

How to type or find 챀

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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType CC40, then AltX to get 챀.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable cak”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType cc40, then Enter or Space.
HTML
챀
CSS
\CC40
Korean 2-beolsik
Switch to a Korean IME, then type ckz: the keys enter ㅊ, ㅏ, and final ㅋ, which compose as 챀.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
챀
HTML hex
챀
CSS content
content: "\CC40";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%B1%80
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

2

Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols