Hangul syllable 쵯

Use a Korean IME with the standard two-set layout.

On Dubeolsik, the standard two-set Korean keyboard, c produces ㅊ, h followed by l combines as ㅚ, and t adds final ㅅ. A Korean input method editor (IME) joins those letters into the Hangul syllable block as you type.

What does 쵯 mean by itself?

Alone, 쵯 identifies a syllable, not its role in a word.

The three Hangul letters, or jamo, are an initial consonant ㅊ, the vowel ㅚ, and a final consonant ㅅ. In a Korean word, this block contributes one written syllable; the surrounding syllables show how it fits and what the whole word means.

Hangul was designed to write Korean speech with letters grouped into syllable blocks. Korean writing also used hanja, Chinese characters used for Korean; Hangul's letters were not derived from Chinese character shapes, even though the blocks can look similar. Hangul's creation is recorded in 1443; an explanatory book about its principles, Hunminjeongeum Haeryebon, appeared in 1446.