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잙

hangul syllable jalg

Hangul syllable Jalg

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잙 is a Hangul syllable block, not a word on its own. Read it within the surrounding Korean text: its written ending ㄺ can sound different depending on the next Korean sound.

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What 잙 means

잙 is a Hangul syllable block, not a word on its own. Hangul is Korea’s writing system: consonant and vowel letters fit together in square blocks, usually one spoken syllable per block. 잙 is written with ㅈ ㅏ the two-consonant ending ㄺ.

Hangul was designed in the 15th century to write Korean speech with a dedicated alphabet. Its development is recorded in 1443, and the alphabet was introduced in 1446 through a text called Hunminjeongeum.

How do you pronounce 잙?

The final cluster ㄺ is pronounced according to the sound that follows. In Korean, the final consonant position in a syllable block is called batchim (받침). ㄺ is a double final cluster; Korean pronunciation rules can change how it is said before different following sounds. The same written ending appears in word bases such as 읽-, 맑-, and 낡-; the hyphen marks that more word ending follows. Those forms share a spelling structure, but their meanings do not transfer to 잙.

Who writes 잙

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Questions people ask

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Why does 잙 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.

How to type or find 잙

Search it as
잙 · ㄺ · 받침 · 겹받침 · batchim
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType C799, then AltX to get 잙.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable jalg”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType c799, then Enter or Space.
HTML
잙
CSS
\C799
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
잙
HTML hex
잙
CSS content
content: "\C799";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%9E%99
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols