Hangul Syllable Jilp

It is a Korean syllable block, not a word definition.

The letters are an initial consonant, a vowel, and a final two-consonant cluster. “Jilp” is the catalog label for that structure, not a dictionary gloss.

Hangul’s early milestones are 1443 and 1446: the script was created in 1443 and introduced in Hunminjeongeum, an explanatory book published in 1446. It gave Korean an alphabetic way to record its sounds. 짎 follows that planned system rather than being a separately invented sign.

How did 짎 become a computer character?

Unicode stores Hangul as blocks or as joining letters. The joining letters, called jamo, can be represented separately; 짎’s sequence is ᄌ + ᅵ + ᆵ.

The script’s name differs between the two Koreas: Hangeul in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea. During the 20th century, horizontal left-to-right writing became common alongside older top-to-bottom writing; the syllable-block principle remained.

Unicode also has separate jamo for older Korean spellings that cannot be built from the modern block set.