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췧

hangul syllable cweh

Hangul syllable Cweh

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췧 is a Hangul syllable block: a consonant, vowel, and final consonant grouped as one syllable. In a Korean word, it contributes one syllable; the word supplies the meaning. “Cweh” is its label, not an English translation. A Korean input method composes the parts, while fonts can space them differently.

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What 췧 means

Alone, 췧 is a syllable block; the Korean word gives it meaning. Hangul spells Korean syllables with blocks built from letters. Here, ㅊ is the opening consonant, ㅞ the vowel, and ㅎ the final consonant. “Cweh” names this sound sequence; it is not an English translation.

Before Hangul, Chinese writing was used in Korea; Hangul was designed to write Korean speech with consonant and vowel letters grouped by syllable. Its creation is recorded in 1443, and the explanatory book 훈민정음 was published in 1446.

How do I type 췧?

A Korean input method combines the opening consonant, vowel, and ending consonant. A Korean input method editor (IME) assembles those parts into one block as you type. The physical keys depend on your keyboard layout, so there is no universal English shortcut for “Cweh.”

Unicode can also store the syllable as separate Hangul letters. Text normalization may keep them separate or recombine them, so the underlying sequence can differ even when it displays as 췧.

Why does 췧 look different in different fonts?

Fonts can shift the parts without changing 췧. Hangul typefaces resize and reposition the opening consonant, vowel, and final consonant within one square cell. Stroke weight, spacing, and balance can change across fonts while the character stays 췧.

Neutral inside Korean writing; by itself, it reads like a syllable separated from its word.

The lone syllable does not provide a word-level definition.

Who writes 췧

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What it means when someone sends it to you

2 readings

One syllable in a longer spelling; the word supplies the lexical meaning.

Questions people ask

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Why does 췧 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type or find 췧

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췧 · cweh · Hangul syllable · Korean syllable · Hangul typing · Korean IME · jamo
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType CDE7, then AltX to get 췧.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable cweh”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType cde7, then Enter or Space.
HTML
췧
CSS
\CDE7
Korean IME
Enter the opening consonant, vowel, then final consonant; a Korean input method editor assembles them into one block.
Separate Hangul letters
The syllable can be encoded as separate Hangul letters; normalization may leave them separate or recombine them.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
췧
HTML hex
췧
CSS content
content: "\CDE7";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%B7%A7
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

2

Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols