Hangul syllable 떆

Read a lone 떆 as an incomplete syllable, not a complete message. It is built from a leading consonant, a vowel, and a trailing consonant; within a Korean word, the surrounding syllables give it context.

Hangul was designed to record Korean speech. Its first recorded mention appears in 1443 in 세종실록, the official chronicle of King Sejong's reign. 훈민정음, an alphabet guide published in 1446, explains how consonants and vowels combine into syllable blocks.

Early works called 언해 were Korean-language editions of texts, including Buddhist works, and used Hangul. In 1928, the holiday was renamed 한글날 (Hangul Day), and Hangeul became widely used as the script's public name.

Why does 떆 display as separate jamo?

Unicode can store 떆 as a block or a decomposed sequence. Its canonical decomposition—the same syllable written as component letters—is ᄄ + ᅤ + ᆩ: a leading consonant, a vowel, and a trailing consonant. A Korean keyboard input method builds the block from ㄸ + ㅒ + ㄲ; these keyboard jamo are related to, but distinct from, the conjoining jamo in the decomposition.

In decomposed text, Hangul shaping positions the jamo as a square syllable block. Without that shaping, the letters may appear separately. Fonts can also draw the block's strokes differently, while the text still represents one syllable.