Hangul syllable 땇

It has no standard standalone meaning; it is a Korean syllable. A Hangul syllable block represents a spoken syllable by grouping consonant and vowel letters; a word made from blocks carries the meaning. One block alone is not automatically a word or a complete message.

In 땇, ㄸ is the starting consonant, ㅏ is the vowel, and ㅊ is the ending consonant. Hangul arranges its letters into compact blocks, so one visible character can contain several letters.

Hangul was created in 1443; an explanation of the new script, the Hunminjeongeum, was completed in 1446. It let Korean be written with letters for its sounds, unlike earlier methods that adapted Chinese characters to Korean. Early Hangul appeared in Buddhist and Confucian books, letters, labels, and practical texts while official writing still favored Chinese characters; it gained official national status in 1894. Before Hangul, Idu, Gugyeol, and Hyangchal were Korean methods of adapting Chinese characters to write Korean. They are part of the broader writing history; the letters in 땇 come from Hangul's own syllable system.

How do I type 땇?

Use the standard two-set Korean keyboard: Shift+E, then K, then C. With Korean input enabled, Shift+E enters ㄸ, K enters ㅏ, and C enters ㅊ. The Korean IME combines them into 땇; on another layout, enter the same three letters in order.

Unicode can encode this syllable as one precomposed character or as a sequence of Hangul letters. Normalization can convert between those forms, and font shaping arranges the letters into a block; fonts may draw its strokes differently without changing the text.