Hangul syllable 찵

This block spells a Korean syllable; the surrounding word supplies its meaning. Hangul arranges consonants and vowels in a square block for each syllable. 찵 combines initial ㅊ, vowel ㅏ, and final ㄾ. That ending is a double batchim: two consonants grouped at the bottom of a syllable block. The block gives spelling sounds, not a complete word's meaning.

Hangul's letters were created in 1443; Hunminjeongeum, a guide to their design and use, was published in 1446. The script offered a more direct way to write Korean speech, which Chinese characters did not represent straightforwardly. 찵 follows that sound-based system; it has no separate historical meaning of its own.

How is 찵 pronounced?

The final ㄾ changes sound with what comes next. A batchim is the final consonant component at the bottom of a Hangul block. At a word end or before another consonant, ㄾ usually reduces to ㄹ, an l-like Korean sound. Before a vowel, ㅌ can move into the next syllable. In 핥다 the ㄹ remains at the syllable end; in 핥아 the ㅌ starts the next syllable.

Hangul's square blocks have been compared with Phags-pa, a square script used across the Yuan empire. Some Korean scholarship proposes an influence, but a direct line of descent is not settled.

How do I type 찵?

In Word for Windows, type CC35 and press Alt+X. Word converts the hexadecimal value to 찵. A font may change the components' placement, shape, or size, so the block can look different without changing identity.

The block can be represented as one precomposed syllable or as an equivalent sequence of conjoining jamo, the separate Hangul letters that join into blocks. Unicode normalization can convert between these forms, which may look the same.