Hangul Syllable Joess

It is one Korean syllable; the word around it supplies the meaning.

As of 2026-09-13, this exact block had no established standalone word meaning in Korean. Read it as one syllable within a word, not as a whole message.

The documentary record of Hangul’s creation begins with a 1443 court record; Hunminjeongeum, a book explaining the script, followed in 1446. At the time, Chinese characters did not map easily to spoken Korean, so Hangul used reusable consonant and vowel letters arranged into syllable blocks. This block has ㅈ at the start, ㅚ as its vowel, and ㅆ at the end. After the 17th century, ㅚ shifted from an older two-part vowel toward one vowel sound. Korean speakers may pronounce it with one vowel sound or with a glide, depending on region, generation, or neighboring sounds.

How do I type 죘 on a Korean keyboard?

A Korean two-set keyboard enters ㅈ, ㅗ+ㅣ, then ㅆ.

On the Dubeolsik layout with a QWERTY keyboard, enter w h l T; capital T means hold Shift while pressing t. The input method combines ㅗ+ㅣ as ㅚ, then closes the syllable with final ㅆ.

Hangul can store this syllable as one precomposed block or as a sequence of joining letter parts, called jamo. Compatibility jamo are separate spacing forms, so a visually similar sequence may stay split instead of composing.