Korean Hangul syllable 쳔

It is one Korean syllable; the word around it supplies the meaning.

Hangul is the Korean writing system that groups letters into syllable blocks. In 쳔, ㅊ is the starting consonant, ㅕ the vowel, and ㄴ the ending consonant. A bare syllable does not identify which Korean word is intended, so read it with the surrounding text.

Where does 쳔 come from?

쳔 belongs to Hangul’s system of assembled syllable blocks.

The system’s first official record dates to 1443. Its explanatory book, Hunminjeongeum, dates to 1446. Hangul was designed to fit Korean sounds and structure and to widen access to reading and writing. 쳔 is a combination within that system, not a separately invented sign.

A study describes a 19th-century composition with early-20th-century manuscripts; the work is a gasa, a Korean verse form, and it records 쳔 in older spellings such as 쳔만봉 (千山萬峰, “a thousand mountains, ten thousand peaks”) and 쳔 (天台山, Mount Tiantai). These examples show the syllable inside longer historical expressions.

How do I type 쳔 on a Korean keyboard?

With Korean input enabled, press c, u, then s.

On the standard two-set layout, those keys enter ㅊ, ㅕ, and ㄴ. The input method editor (IME), the keyboard software that composes Hangul, joins them as 쳔. If you continue with a vowel, final ㄴ can shift to the next syllable during composition; check the result before sending.