Hangul Syllable Jjoep

Read it as one syllable inside a Korean word.

Hangul syllable blocks combine an initial consonant, a vowel, and sometimes a final consonant. 쬪 is built from ᄍ + ᅬ + ᇁ: its initial consonant, vowel, and final consonant. Unicode’s name “jjoep” describes those components; it is not a Korean word or translation.

Hangul was designed to make Korean easier to write and learn, using syllable blocks assembled from speech sounds. The first record of Hunminjeongeum—the text introducing the writing system—appears in the Sejong Sillok, a royal chronicle, in 1443; its explanatory book was published in 1446. Unicode represents regular Hangul syllables both as precomposed blocks and as equivalent sequences of component letters.

How do I type 쬪?

On a Korean 2-set keyboard, press Shift+W, then H, L, V.

With Korean Hangul input enabled, Shift+W enters the initial doubled consonant; H and L build its vowel, and V adds the final consonant. The Korean input method assembles the letters into 쬪 as you type; typing the Latin string “jjoep” does not produce this character.

쬪 and 쬪 are canonically equivalent: one is a precomposed syllable block, while the other stores its three Hangul letters separately. Unicode normalization lets software compare them consistently even though their code sequences differ.