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좉

hangul syllable jot

Hangul Syllable Jot

No: 좉 and 좆 are different Hangul syllables, with ㅌ and ㅈ as their final letters. 좉 is built from Korean jamo, the letters that combine into syllable blocks. A Hangul typo can change a message's tone, so check the ending before reading the vulgar word into it.

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What 좉 means

No: these are different written forms.

The final jamo is ㅌ in 좉 and ㅈ in 좆. The second is a vulgar Korean noun for the penis, so a one-letter typo or deliberate change shifts the tone sharply.

An older written form, 졷, appears in 마경초집언해, a practical veterinary text dated to the 16th or 17th century, where it names anatomy. Later, 좆 appears in insults and forceful compounds. A history of Korean proposes a link to a word transcribed as coco in Manchu, a language of Northeast Asia; that proposed history concerns 좆, not this exact syllable.

What does 좉 mean?

It is a syllable spelling, not a social cue.

Hangul blocks combine jamo, the Korean letters that build syllables. In 좉, the initial consonant, vowel and final consonant are ㅈ, ㅗ and ㅌ. The block spells a syllable; the vulgar meaning belongs to the separate word 좆.

How do I type 좉?

Switch to Korean Hangul input and enter ㅈ, ㅗ, then ㅌ.

A Korean input method (IME) combines jamo into one syllable block as you type. If it produces Latin letters or leaves the jamo separate, switch your keyboard's active input to Korean.

좉 is neutral as a written syllable; the vulgar charge belongs to the separate word 좆.

Check the final consonant before reading the vulgar noun into a message.

Don't confuse it with

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Questions people ask

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Why does 좉 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 좉

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType C889, then Alt+X to get 좉.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable jot”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType c889, then Enter or Space.
HTML
좉
CSS
\C889
How to type 좉
Activate Korean Hangul input, then enter ㅈ, ㅗ and ㅌ in that order. The IME combines the jamo into one block.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
좉
HTML hex
좉
CSS content
content: "\C889";
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URL encoded
%EC%A2%89
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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