Hangul syllable 쭢

Enter ㅉ, then ㅜ, then ㅍ in a Korean input method editor (IME).

On standard Dubeolsik (the common Korean keyboard layout), press Shift+W, N, then V. The IME combines the letters into one syllable block as you type. If your layout differs, use its on-screen keyboard; Unicode-entry shortcuts are separate and vary by operating system.

What does 쭢 mean on its own?

As of 2026, no standalone word meaning is established for 쭢.

Inside a Korean word, it contributes one syllable; the rest of the word supplies the meaning.

Is 쭢 an emoji? No: it is a Hangul character from the Korean writing system, used to write a syllable.

Why was Hangul created?

To make Korean writing easier to learn and use.

The earliest creation record for Hangul is from 1443; the explanatory guide 훈민정음, whose title means “Correct Sounds for the Instruction of the People,” was published in 1446. Korean had been written with Chinese characters, including through Idu, a system that adapted them to Korean words and grammar. Those older systems were difficult to use without advanced literacy, so Hangul was designed around sound-based letters, called jamo, that combine into syllable blocks.

Hangul did not replace Chinese-character writing at once. Officials and scholars continued using Chinese characters while court women and Buddhist communities helped spread Hangul; by the late Joseon period (the later centuries of Korea’s Joseon dynasty), printed Hangul novels reached readers across social classes. 쭢 follows this block system: Unicode stores it as one character or as equivalent jamo, and normalization, a standard text conversion, can recombine the sequence.