What 죃 means
By itself, 죃 is a syllable, not a complete Korean word. It joins the opening consonant ᄌ, vowel ᅫ, and ending consonant ᇂ. These Hangul component letters are called jamo; a Korean IME, or keyboard software that assembles Hangul, combines them into one block. As of 2026, this exact block has no established standalone word or conventional chat meaning. If someone sends it alone, ask what text it came from.
The earliest record dates Hangul's creation to 1443. In 1446, Hunminjeongeum, the book that introduced the script, explained its letters and how an opening consonant, vowel, and ending consonant form a syllable. Hangul let people write Korean speech more directly, including those with less access to Chinese-character literacy.
Hangul has grown from that literacy project into everyday Korean writing. Modern text normally displays syllables as blocks; older spelling records and linguistic work on dialects may show the component jamo separately. Replace or remove the final ㅎ and you have a different syllable, not a spelling variant.
Alone, it is an unidentified syllable; inside Korean text, read it as part of the word.
Don't translate a lone 죃 as a reply; ask what Korean word it came from.
Who writes 죃
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsTreat it as an unidentified syllable, not as a translated reply.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 죃 show as a box?
It is a font gap. Software without a glyph for this Hangul syllable may show a missing-character box; try a Korean-capable font.
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How to type or find 죃
- Search it as
- Hangul syllable block · Korean character · Hangul jamo · Korean IME · Dubeolsik keyboard · Hangul input · Korean keyboard
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
죃\C8C3Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.