Hangul syllable Ceod

On its own, 첟 is a syllable, not a complete ordinary Korean word.

The Unicode label “ceod” identifies this Hangul syllable; it is not a translation. The block combines Korean jamo—the letters used to form syllable blocks: ㅊ is the initial consonant, ㅓ the vowel, and ㄷ the final consonant. Read it as one syllable inside a Korean word or name; without that context, it is not enough to translate.

How did Hangul syllable blocks develop?

Hangul's syllable blocks were designed for writing Korean.

King Sejong's court designed Hangul to represent spoken Korean and make literacy more accessible. The Sejong Sillok, a royal court chronicle, records the script's creation in 1443; a guide to it, the Hunminjeongeum, appeared in 1446. The block format gathers letters into a square, which explains why 첟 displays as one unit despite its three jamo.

Hangul later became a central marker of Korean identity. As of 2026, it is the main writing system in both North and South Korea, whose standard spellings differ in some respects. Its square-block layout developed in a writing culture familiar with Chinese characters; scholars also compare Hangul's syllable design with the Mongolian Phags-pa script. That comparison does not prove direct borrowing or a single-source origin.

How do I type or render 첟?

Enter ㅊ, then ㅓ, then ㄷ in a Korean IME.

That input method combines the initial consonant, vowel, and final consonant into one precomposed Hangul block: 첟. In source code, insert the character directly or use your programming language's Unicode escape for U+CC9F.

Fonts can give the strokes different weight, spacing, or proportions without changing the character. If you see ㅊ, ㅓ, and ㄷ separately, the text is decomposed into jamo rather than displayed as the precomposed syllable. A Korean IME can compose the sequence; Unicode normalization may also combine it in software that supports normalization.