Hangul syllable Cigg

A Korean IME can form 칚 from ㅊ + ㅣ + ㄲ.

These are compatibility jamo, the standalone letter forms used in Korean typing: ㅊ is an initial consonant, ㅣ the vowel, and ㄲ the final consonant. A composing Korean IME joins them in that order; controls differ by keyboard.

칚 is encoded as one precomposed Hangul block. Unicode also represents the same syllable with an equivalent sequence of component jamo, which a Hangul-aware font can display as one block. The visible result can match even when the underlying text is stored differently.

What does 칚 mean?

칚 is a Hangul syllable, not a documented standalone word.

The Unicode name element “cigg” is a romanized label for the syllable, not a Korean word to translate. A syllable can appear inside a longer spelling. Checks recorded on 2026-09-13 in the Korean dictionary and exact-character searches did not document 칚 as a standalone Korean word or conventional message token.

Hangul’s history is older than this exact block. A record announcing the script’s creation dates to 1443, and the 1446 Hunminjeongeum is an explanatory book about its design and use. Hangul was designed for Korean and to broaden access to writing; it also became a marker of Korean identity in later history. Hyangchal, idu, and gugyeol are Chinese-character-based ways of writing Korean: they are historical context, not established ancestors of this syllable.