Hangul syllable Jjyul

It is a Korean syllable; its word meaning comes from context. As of 2026-09-13, this exact syllable had no established standalone word meaning in Korean. In Korean text, it contributes a syllable to a word, and that word supplies the lexical meaning. Its standard romanized spelling is jjyul.

Hangul, the Korean writing system, was designed to represent Korean speech in syllable blocks. Its first historical record dates to 1443. In 1446, the book Hunminjeongeum explained how its letters combine. Those dates describe the writing system, not when this particular syllable first appeared.

Why is 쯀 written as one block?

It combines three Hangul letters into one syllable block. Its jamo sequence is ᄍ + ᅲ + ᆯ: an initial consonant, a vowel, and a final consonant. Jamo are the letters used to build Hangul syllables. A Korean input method composes the three into one block.

The same sequence can be stored as the single precomposed syllable 쯀 or as three conjoining jamo. The syllable's role in Korean words stays the same; only its encoded form differs.

Why does 쯀 look different in different fonts?

Fonts can change the component shapes without changing the syllable. Unicode's reference glyph does not prescribe one design. If you see 쯀 instead of 쯀, the text uses the decomposed conjoining-jamo sequence, not a different Korean syllable.

As of 2026-09-13, software support for shaping conjoining jamo varied. NFC normalization composes the canonical sequence 쯀 into the single precomposed block 쯀.