Hangul syllable Cyaed

As of 2026-09-13, 첃 has no established standalone meaning.

It is a Hangul text character, not an emoji. Hangul writes Korean in syllable blocks assembled from smaller letters called jamo. In 첃, ㅊ is the first consonant, ㅒ the vowel, and ㄷ the final consonant; the word around it supplies the meaning.

Hangul builds syllable blocks from smaller letters

Hangul was created to write Korean in a period when Chinese characters were the main writing system used in Korea.

The Hunminjeongeum, a book explaining Hangul, is dated to 1443 and was published in 1446. It describes how smaller letters combine into syllable blocks, a principle a Korean input method still uses to form 첃. Typeface designs can vary spacing and proportions inside a block, but the character remains 첃.