What 젣 means
It supplies a syllable sound, while the surrounding word supplies meaning. Its three parts are ㅈ at the start, ㅔ as the vowel and ㄷ at the end. A Korean dictionary lists 젣ː빱 as an alternate pronunciation of 젯밥, rice prepared for or eaten after an ancestral rite. There, 젣 is part of the pronunciation, not the written word.
Hangul was designed to represent Korean speech more directly than Chinese characters and idu, a mixed system that used Chinese characters to write Korean. The earliest record of the Hangul project is dated 1443; the new alphabet was introduced in Hunminjeongeum, a book published in 1446. Hangul's component letters, called jamo, join into syllable blocks like 젣.
How do I type 젣?
In a Korean input method, enter ㅈ, ㅔ, then ㄷ. The input method joins those letters into 젣.
Unicode can store the syllable as one block or as separate jamo. NFC, a Unicode normalization form, can join separate jamo into the single syllable block.
Neutral as a written Korean syllable; alone, it gives a sound but little word-level context.
In pronunciation notation, read 젣 as part of the word being sounded out; don't translate the fragment alone.
Don't confuse it with
2Questions people ask
1Why does 젣 appear in the pronunciation of 젯밥?
It is part of an alternate pronunciation listed for 젯밥; the written word is 젯밥, not 젣.
How to type 젣
젣\C823Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.