What 췩 means
Type ㅊ + ㅟ + ㄱ in a Korean input method. These three Hangul letters, called jamo, combine into 췩.
A 1989 Korean government language article lists 췩 among the syllables omitted from a fixed 2,350-character set. If a legacy editor rejects the block, enter its jamo through an input method that composes syllables; do not substitute 취, which lacks the final ㄱ.
What does 췩 mean when someone sends it?
It has no fixed meaning by itself. Hangul writes Korean syllables as blocks, so this character gets its meaning from the word it belongs to.
Hangul was developed in Joseon Korea to make writing Korean more accessible. Before it, writers adapted Chinese characters to Korean through systems such as Idu, Gugyeol and Hyangchal. Hangul’s first official record dates to 1443, and an explanatory book appeared in 1446. Those dates refer to the script as a whole. A possible influence from the Mongolian Phags-pa script has been proposed, but remains unsettled.
In a 1989 Korean language article, 췩 appears inside dialect spellings 축췩이 and 췩이다, corresponding to 축축이 (“damply”) and 축이다 (“to dampen”). In a 2022 workplace-forum post, 췩.. follows 취직 (“getting a job”) as a clipped, playful echo; that joke depends on the surrounding phrase.
Ordinary inside a Korean word; unusual alone, where it reads as an unexplained syllable.
Sent alone, 췩 can look like a typo or unfinished Korean input.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsDon't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 췩 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 췩
췩\CDE9Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.