젎 Hangul syllable Jeolp

What 젎 means

One block joins an initial, a vowel, and a final cluster.

The separate Hangul letters are ᄌ, ᅥ, and ᆵ: ᄌ begins the syllable, ᅥ is its vowel, and ᆵ closes it as the cluster ㄿ. “Jeolp” describes this structure; it is not a translation of a Korean word.

Hangul's purpose and rules were explained in Hunminjeongeum, a guide published in 1446 that describes how consonant and vowel letters form syllable blocks. Modern Korean spelling later followed a unified draft from 1933, revised in 1988.

Why can 젎 appear as separate letters?

Unicode normalization can store the same syllable in two forms.

NFC keeps 젎 as one precomposed block; NFD expands it to ᄌ ᅥ ᆵ, the separate Hangul letters called jamo. Both forms represent the same syllable.

On a keyboard set to Korean Hangul input, type ㅈ, ㅓ, ㄹ, ㅍ in order; the input method can compose them as 젎, forming ㄿ from ㄹ ㅍ. It can also use context to decide whether a consonant starts a syllable or closes the previous one.

A Korean written syllable; its word-level meaning depends on the text around it.

Alone, it can look like a stray keystroke unless the recipient expects a Hangul sample or input test.

Who writes 젎

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What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings

Read it as one written syllable; the surrounding letters show which word it belongs to.

Don't confuse it with

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젊

Hangul Syllable Jeolm

Which one is 젎, not 젊? The final cluster differs: 젎 has ㄿ; 젊 has ㄻ.

젋

Hangul Syllable Jeolb

젋 ends in ㄼ; 젎 ends in ㄿ.

절

Hangul Syllable Jeol

절 has no final consonant cluster; 젎 ends in ㄿ.

Related characters

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ᄌ

Hangul Choseong Cieuc

The initial consonant in 젎's decomposed form; it joins ᅥ and ᆵ to make the same syllable.

ᅥ

Hangul Jungseong Eo

The vowel in 젎's decomposed form, between the initial consonant ᄌ and final component ᆵ.

ᆵ

Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph

The final component in 젎's decomposed form; it represents the consonant cluster ㄿ.

Questions people ask

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Why does 젎 look different in different fonts?

Hangul fonts arrange the consonant and vowel components within a square syllable cell, so proportions and stroke details can vary. The drawing can change while the encoded character stays the same.