What 쬐 means
By itself, 쬐 is a syllable, not a complete Korean word.
Its clearest life is as the opening stem of 쬐다 (jjoeda), the verb for sunlight shining, basking in sun, warming yourself by fire, or applying radiation. Translate the whole word around it; do not hang one English gloss on this single block.
The verb's earliest cited form is in the Worin seokbo, in 1459, under an older spelling. Hangul's first record is dated 1443, and its 1446 explanatory book sets out how consonants and vowels snap together into syllable blocks like this one.
Why does 쬐 sometimes look or match differently?
The glyph can look the same while its stored form differs.
Unicode treats precomposed 쬐 and the equivalent conjoining-jamo sequence as canonically equivalent, and fonts are expected to show the sequence as one block. For search or database keys, normalize to NFC; identical looks do not guarantee identical bytes.
Ordinary Korean spelling inside a word; not an emoji, mood cue, or reaction marker.
A lone 쬐 usually needs the rest of its word.
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2Is 쬐 an emoji?
No. It is a Hangul text character, so its look comes from your font, not emoji artwork.
Is 쬐다 also written 쪼이다?
Yes. 쪼이다 is listed as an allowed alternative form of the same verb.
How to type or find 쬐
- Search it as
- jjoe · 쬐다 · hangul · jjoeda · 쪼이다
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
쬐\CB10Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.


