What 잪 means
Alone, it has no fixed meaning; it spells one syllable.
The Hangul block combines ㅈ (the initial consonant), ㅏ (the vowel), and final ㅍ. These components are called jamo; the final consonant belongs to the same written syllable.
Hangul was created in 1443, and an explanatory book called Hunminjeongeum appeared in 1446. It offered Korean readers a more accessible writing system than older methods such as Idu, Gugyeol, and Hyangchal, which adapted Chinese characters to write Korean. Hangul passed through everyday and literary use and periods of official use, was suppressed under Japanese rule, then carried forward through education and scholarship.
In Korean text, 잪 is neutral; the English slur Jap is a separate word used offensively for Japanese people.
Do not use the English slur Jap for a Japanese person.
Don't confuse it with
3Questions people ask
1Why does 잪 appear as separate jamo?
Hangul has equivalent decomposed and precomposed forms. NFD stores ᄌ + ᅡ + ᇁ as conjoining jamo; NFC normally stores one precomposed syllable. A Hangul-capable font can shape the decomposed sequence as one block.
How to type 잪
잪\C7AACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.