Hangul syllable Cyeolg

By itself, 쳙 is a syllable, not a complete Korean word.

Hangul builds syllable blocks from letters called jamo: here, ㅊ starts the block, ㅕ is the vowel, and ㄺ is the final consonant cluster of ㄹ and ㄱ. This spells a syllable; the surrounding Korean word tells you what the whole word means.

Hangul was devised under King Sejong in 1443 so Korean could be written more easily; earlier writers used Chinese characters and methods adapted from them. A 1446 explanatory book, Hunminjeongeum, described the letters and their syllable-block structure. As of 2026, the script is commonly called Hangul in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea.

How do I type 쳙?

On a Korean IME, enter the jamo in sequence.

On the standard Dubeolsik two-set keyboard, enter c-u-f-r: c makes ㅊ, u makes ㅕ, and f followed by r combines into ㄺ. Without Korean input active, the same keystrokes produce Latin letters.

An IME assembles the syllable as you type; an unfinished block or briefly visible jamo is a temporary input state.

Why does 쳙 split into separate letters?

It can be stored as one Hangul block or as separate jamo.

Unicode supports the syllable either as one precomposed character or as its conjoining jamo sequence. Fonts can position those parts differently, so the spelling may look split without the text changing.