Hangul Syllable Dwaej

By itself, it has no fixed message; it is one Korean syllable block. Its jamo (component letters) are ㄷ + ㅙ + final ㅈ. Hangul combines an initial consonant, a vowel, and sometimes a final consonant inside one block; this one ends in ㅈ.

Read the Korean word around it for meaning. Without that context, this block alone does not tell you which word is intended.

Where did Hangul’s block system come from?

Hangul was designed to make Korean easier to write. In the fifteenth century, Korean speakers used Chinese characters and adaptations of them to write Korean. The National Hangeul Museum dates the creation of Hunminjeongeum, the new script, to 1443 and its explanatory publication to 1446.

Earlier systems such as Idu, Gugyeol, and Hyangchal adapted Chinese characters to Korean, but were difficult to use. Jamo are the component letters; arranging an initial, vowel, and final in a block made the new script repeatable across Korean words. In 1894, King Gojong made Hangul the official national script, and it later became dominant over writing based on Chinese characters.

How do I type 됒?

Enter its jamo in order; a Korean IME assembles the block. Precomposed 됒 stores one syllable; a decomposed sequence stores its jamo separately. Unicode normalization can bring these canonically equivalent forms to a consistent representation.

With standard two-set Korean input (Dubeolsik), enter the initial, compound vowel, and final in order. On a QWERTY keyboard, the keystrokes are E-H-O-W; an English layout enters Latin letters instead of Hangul jamo.