Hangul Syllable Ceoh

It writes one Korean syllable; its word meaning comes from context.

Hangul groups letters, called jamo, into blocks. In this one, ᄎ is the initial consonant, ᅥ the vowel, and ᇂ the final consonant; together they form one syllable. That structure tells you how the block is built, not the meaning of a whole Korean word.

Hangul’s development culminated in 1443; an explanatory book about the writing system was completed in 1446. It offered a more direct way to write Korean than Chinese characters and older systems such as idu, which also used Chinese characters to write Korean.

How does 첳 relate to the other Hangul letters?

Unicode stores it as one block or as joining letters.

Unicode can encode 첳 as one precomposed syllable or as the joining-jamo sequence 첳. The compatibility jamo ㅊ ㅓ ㅎ are separate characters; typing them directly does not give them the same joining behavior.

How do I type 첳?

Use a Korean input method and enter its letters in order.

With Korean input active, enter ㅊ, ㅓ, and ㅎ in that order; the input method composes them into 첳. If it inserts the compatibility characters directly, they can remain separate.

Ceoh is Unicode’s algorithmic romanized label for this syllable, not a Korean word definition.