Hangul syllable Ceonj

Alone, 첝 has no fixed word meaning. It is a Korean syllable block made from ㅊ, ㅓ, and final ㄵ. The Korean letters that build syllable blocks are called jamo; the bottom consonant part is batchim. Here, ㄵ is a two-letter final cluster made from ㄴ + ㅈ.

In a Korean word, read the block with its neighbors; alone, it may be a fragment or a character someone is inspecting. Fonts can draw its parts with different shapes and spacing, while the encoded syllable remains 첝.

Why are Korean syllables written in blocks?

Hangul letters combine to represent spoken Korean syllables. The first recorded reference to Hangul’s creation is from 1443; 훈민정음, a book that introduced and explained the script, was published in 1446. Hangul addressed the difficulty of writing Korean with Chinese characters, which were a poor fit for Korean speech and hard for many people to learn.

Before Hangul, Korean writing used Chinese characters and methods adapted to Korean. The script also had the Korean names 언문 (“vernacular writing”) and 국문 (“national writing”); the name 한글 became widely used after 1928.