Hangul syllable 찥

It has no established meaning when it stands alone.

As of 2026, this exact block has no established standalone dictionary meaning or documented social reading. A syllable block gives you one part of a Korean word, so a message containing only 찥 does not tell you a reliable extra message.

Hangul was devised for writing Korean speech. Its earliest official record is dated 1443; a 1446 publication called the Hunminjeongeum explains its design. In 찥, initial consonant ㅉ, vowel ㅣ, and final consonant ㅌ form one syllable block.

How do I type 찥?

Use a Korean input method; Dubeolsik builds it from three keystrokes.

Dubeolsik is the standard Korean keyboard layout. With a Korean input method (IME) active, press Shift+W, then L, then X. The IME combines initial consonant ㅉ, vowel ㅣ, and final consonant ㅌ into 찥.

Why can 찥 appear as jamo?

Unicode stores it as a block or a jamo sequence.

Jamo are the consonant and vowel letters that make Hangul syllables. Unicode can also represent a precomposed block as a sequence of those letters; normalization can expose them without changing the syllable's canonical identity.

Complete Hangul syllables usually display as one block. Separate jamo may need a Hangul-aware font or layout support to join into the same syllable shape; seeing the components reflects a storage or display state, not a different meaning.