What 쭛 means
It adds a syllable; the surrounding Korean word supplies its meaning.
Hangul joins its letters, called jamo, into syllable blocks. 쭛 combines ᄍ, ᅮ and ᆺ; in a longer word, read it as one syllable.
A Korean orthography article from 1989 lists 쭛 among blocks needed for some words using 사이시옷, the letter ㅅ inserted in certain compound spellings. This gives the block an in-word spelling role, not a separate definition.
Where does 쭛 come from?
It follows Hangul’s regular system for building syllable blocks.
Hangul is the alphabet used to write Korean. Its system was devised in 1443 and officially introduced in 1446 to make everyday writing easier at a time when formal writing relied on Chinese characters. This syllable block follows that system’s design.
Unicode includes this syllable as a single encoded character from 1996; that is its computer-encoding date, not the origin of Hangul.
Neutral in ordinary Korean spelling.
Who writes 쭛
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsRead it as one syllable in the word; use the full word to determine the meaning.
Don't confuse it with
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쭛 The joining Hangul letter forms written separately; Unicode NFC normalization can combine them into the single syllable block 쭛.
ㅉㅜㅅ Separate standalone-style Hangul letters; together they are not encoded as the single syllable block 쭛.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 쭛 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 쭛
- Search it as
- 쭛 · jamo · Hangul · Korean syllable · Dubeolsik · Korean keyboard · 사이시옷 · NFC
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
쭛\CB5BCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.