Hangul syllable jad

잗 is a Hangul syllable block whose role comes from its word. At a word's end, it sounds like 잣 (“pine nut”), though the spelling differs.

Text symbol

What 잗 means

잗 is one Hangul syllable block. It joins initial consonant ᄌ, vowel ᅡ, and final consonant ᆮ.

Before Hangul, Korean writing used Chinese characters in systems such as Idu, Gugyeol, and Hyangchal. Created in 1443, Hangul grouped sounds into syllable blocks to ease Korean reading and writing; a book explained it in 1446. It became official in 1894; spelling rules were set in 1933 and revised in 1988.

The precomposed 잗 can look like the decomposed sequence 잗, but they are distinct text sequences.

Part of the collection

가

Korean Syllables (Hangul Characters)

Who writes 잗

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Don't confuse it with

잣

Hangul Syllable Jas

Word-finally, both have the same clipped t sound; 잣 means “pine nut.” A Korean history records 잣 → 잗 in the 16th century.

Questions people ask

Why does 잗 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.