Hangul syllable Ddelt

It is one Hangul syllable block, built from three letters. Its components are jamo, Hangul’s letters: ᄄ is the initial consonant, ᅦ the vowel, and ᆴ the two-consonant ending. That ending sits in the batchim position at the bottom of the block. Together, the letters form one written syllable; its role and meaning come from the Korean word around it. If it arrives alone, ask for the word or sentence.

Hangul was devised in 1443, and its explanatory book 훈민정음 was published in 1446. The alphabet let writers represent Korean speech with letters that combine into syllable blocks, rather than relying only on Chinese characters. 뗉 is one result of that reusable system, not a separately invented sign.

Earlier names for the writing system included 훈민정음, 언문, 반절, 국문 and 국서. The name 한글 appears in records from the early 1910s and became more widely used after a public holiday was renamed in 1928.

How do you type 뗉?

Use a Korean keyboard input method and enter the letters in order.

On Dubeolsik, the standard Korean keyboard layout, press Shift+E for ㄸ, P for ㅔ, then F and X for final ㄾ. The Korean input method combines them into 뗉.

Some software stores the syllable as three separate jamo: ᄄ ᅦ ᆴ. Unicode normalization can recombine those same letters into one block; the representation changes, not the syllable.