Hangul syllable jjyel

쪨 writes one Korean syllable; by itself, it has no fixed English definition. A Korean word containing it supplies the meaning in context.

Hangul was designed to write Korean speech with letters that combine into syllable blocks; before it, formal writing relied heavily on Chinese characters. The first documented record of the new system, then called Hunminjeongeum, dates to 1443; an explanatory book appeared in 1446. Later names included jeongeum, eonmun, banjeol, gukmun, and gukseo. “Hangeul” began appearing in the early 1910s and had spread by 1928. These are names for the writing system, not extra meanings of 쪨.

How is 쪨 built?

It combines three Hangul component letters in one syllable block.

Hangul arranges an opening consonant, a vowel, and sometimes a closing consonant inside a syllable block. 쪨 has all three: ᄍ, ᅨ, and ᆯ. A rough romanization is jjyel: a tight, tense Korean jj sound, followed by ye and a final l-like sound.

How do I type 쪨?

A Korean IME can assemble it from three input letters.

An input method editor (IME)—the Korean keyboard software that joins typed letters into syllables—takes ㅉ, then ㅖ, then ㄹ. If they stay separate, the text field has not composed them.

Unicode also represents the parts as ᄍ ᅨ ᆯ. When one precomposed syllable is needed, NFC, a Unicode normalization form, joins those modern Hangul jamo into 쪨. In a Unicode-hex converter, enter CAA8; the shortcut varies by app.