Hangul Syllable Ddeubs

Type the Hangul jamo in this order: ㄸ + ㅡ + ㅂ + ㅅ.

These Hangul sound letters are called jamo: ㄸ is the initial consonant, ㅡ the vowel, and ㅂ + ㅅ form final cluster ㅄ. A Korean IME (input method) joins them into one block; if they stay separate, switch on standard Hangul syllable composition.

What does 뜺 mean?

It is one syllable, not a complete translated message.

Hangul blocks represent spoken syllables and combine into words. Read 뜺 as part of the surrounding Korean word to understand the word's meaning; if it arrives alone, ask what word or sentence it belongs to.

Where did Hangul come from?

It was developed to write Korean with sound letters grouped by syllable.

Hangul was devised in 1443, and an explanatory book, 훈민정음, appeared in 1446. Hangul developed alongside Hanja, Chinese characters also used to write Korean: Hangul blocks combine letters for sounds, while Hanja are complete characters.

Earlier names described it as “correct sounds” (정음), “vernacular writing” (언문), “national writing” (국문), and “national script” (국서); today the writing system is called 한글. Modern Korean spelling is based on a unified draft from 1933 and was partly revised in 1988.