Hangul syllable Cenh

It is a syllable unit, not a self-contained word.

Hangul builds syllable blocks from Jamo, its separate consonant and vowel letters. Here, ㅊ starts the block, ㅔ is its vowel, and ㄶ is the final cluster made from ㄴ + ㅎ. The structure shows how the syllable is written; a surrounding Korean word or sentence supplies any word-level meaning.

Hangul was first called Hunminjeongeum. A record from 1443 names the new writing system, and a book published in 1446 explains its purpose: writing Korean speech, and how an initial consonant, vowel, and final consonant form syllables. The name Hangeul appears in records from the early 1910s. 첺 follows that syllable-building pattern.

How do I type 첺?

On the standard Korean 2-set keyboard, enter cpsg.

With that layout active in a Korean input method (IME), c, p, s, and g enter ㅊ, ㅔ, ㄴ, and ㅎ; the IME joins ㄴ + ㅎ into the final cluster ㄶ and composes 첺. These are layout key positions, not a Latin spelling of the syllable.

Why does 첺 look like one block?

Hangul arranges its consonants and vowel in one syllable cell.

The initial consonant and vowel form the upper part; the final cluster sits at the bottom. In 첺, the vowel ㅔ is in the middle and ㄶ fills the final position.

Pre-1933 Korean spellings could use Jamo sequences. In Unicode, NFC (the composed form) can store 첺 as one block, while NFD (the decomposed form) represents it with conjoining Jamo. A Hangul-supporting font lays those parts out as the same syllable even though the stored character sequence differs.