Hangul Syllable Conj

It is a Hangul syllable, not a complete word by itself.

Its parts are ㅊ (initial consonant), ㅗ (vowel), and ㄵ (a two-consonant ending). They describe how the block is built, not a word meaning. Unicode's decomposed form stores the corresponding letters as conjoining jamo: forms intended to join into a syllable block.

Before 1443, Korean writing commonly used Chinese characters and Idu, a method that adapted those characters to represent Korean words and grammar. Hangul was devised in 1443 and promulgated in 1446. It began as a court-backed literacy project, faced opposition from some scholars, and later spread through vernacular and administrative writing. Earlier names for the script included 정음, 언문, 국문, and 국서; the name 한글 appeared in the early 1910s and was widespread by 1928.

How do I type 촍?

Use a Korean input method or compose its jamo.

On a standard Korean 2-set (Dubeolsik) keyboard, press C, H, S, W in sequence: those keys enter ㅊ, ㅗ, ㄴ, ㅈ. The input method combines ㄴ + ㅈ into the final ㄵ, producing 촍.

Unicode treats this precomposed block as canonically equivalent to a sequence of conjoining jamo. Text normalization can change the stored sequence while preserving the same Korean text.

Why does 촍 sometimes look different on screen?

An app may show separate jamo instead of one block.

As of 2026, Unicode's Korean FAQ says basic composition is broadly supported, while support for some jamo-shaping features varies across apps. The precomposed block depends less on an app's ability to shape a jamo sequence.