Hangul syllable ddyas

A Korean syllable block made from three Hangul letters.

ㄸ begins it, ㅑ supplies the vowel, and ㅅ closes it as 받침, the final consonant in a block. At the end of a syllable, ㅅ is not pronounced like an English s; it becomes an unreleased t-like sound. Before a following vowel, it moves to the next syllable and is pronounced like an initial ㅅ.

Hangul was devised to make Korean easier to write than Chinese characters allowed and to make reading easier to learn. Hangul's early official record and explanatory book date to 1443 and 1446, respectively. Its connected forms include the letters that combine into syllable blocks; 땻 is one such block, not a separate invention.

Someone sent me 땻—what does it mean?

Alone, it has no established chat meaning.

In Korean writing, read it with the surrounding syllables. As of 2026-09-13, 땻 had no established standalone chat reading; if it arrived by itself, ask what word or sentence it came from instead of guessing at a joke or reaction.

How do I type 땻?

Use a Korean 2-Set input method and enter ㄸ, ㅑ, then ㅅ.

On standard South Korean 2-Set QWERTY input, hold Shift and press E for ㄸ, I for ㅑ, then T for ㅅ. The input method composes the syllable as you type.

With Unicode normalization Form D (NFD), a tool can show the block as separate Hangul letters; Form C (NFC) can recombine them. Fonts may draw the assembled character differently.