What 쨭 means
Its meaning depends on the Korean word around it.
The three Hangul letters, called jamo, are ㅉ (a tense initial consonant), ㅑ (the vowel), and ㅌ (the final consonant). That describes how 쨭 is assembled, not a fixed word definition.
Hangul was devised to write Korean directly rather than rely on Classical Chinese. Its earlier name was 훈민정음; the Annals of King Sejong record it in 1443, and an explanatory book appeared in 1446. Unicode stores modern Korean syllables as precomposed blocks and also preserves the jamo used to compose them.
How do I type 쨭?
Use a Korean 2-set keyboard: ShiftW, I, then X.
With a Korean 2-set input method editor (IME), ShiftW enters ㅉ, I enters ㅑ, and X enters ㅌ. The IME combines the initial consonant, vowel, and final consonant into 쨭 as you type.
Why can 쨭 look different in different fonts?
A font can change its strokes and proportions.
Different fonts and fallback fonts may draw 쨭 with different strokes or proportions, while the text character remains the same.
Unicode normalization treats the precomposed syllable as equivalent to its canonical sequence of jamo. A Korean IME combines valid jamo into a syllable block as you type.
Neutral as a written Hangul syllable; interpret it through the Korean word or phrase around it.
Who writes 쨭
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Questions people ask
1Why does 쨭 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.
How to type or find 쨭
- Search it as
- jjyat · Hangul jamo · Korean 2-set keyboard
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
쨭\CA2DCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

