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췅

hangul syllable cweong

Hangul syllable Cweong

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췅 is a Hangul syllable block; its meaning depends on the Korean word around it. A Jeju oral history records a local use while explaining a traditional knot button.

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What 췅 means

췅 is a Hangul syllable block; context gives it meaning.

Hangul is the Korean alphabet. In this block, ㅊ begins the syllable, ㅝ is its vowel, and ㅇ ends it. Hangul was devised in 1443 and described in the 1446 guide Hunminjeongeum; those dates concern the alphabet, not 췅's separate origin.

Someone sent 췅 alone—what now?

One syllable cannot identify the sender’s intended word.

A 2017 Jeju dialect oral-history transcript uses 췅 while describing a traditional knot button; its standard-Korean gloss is “finish it like this.” That is a local use in its passage, not a fixed reading for an isolated message.

Who writes 췅

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Questions people ask

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Why does 췅 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 췅

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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType CDC5, then AltX to get 췅.
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 cweong”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType cdc5, then Enter or Space.
HTML
췅
CSS
\CDC5
Korean two-set keyboard
With that layout active, type C-N-J-D (ㅊ, ㅜ, ㅓ, ㅇ); the input method joins ㅜㅓ into ㅝ and forms 췅. Fonts may vary its proportions.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
췅
HTML hex
췅
CSS content
content: "\CDC5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%B7%85
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

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Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols