What 죂 means
죂 is a Hangul syllable whose meaning comes from its word.
The jamo in 죂—Hangul's component letters—are ᄌ ᅫ ᇁ; their familiar separate forms are ㅈ ㅙ ㅍ. The Korean word around the syllable supplies its meaning.
A Korean IME can assemble the letters as you type; Unicode stores the finished syllable as one precomposed character.
Why is 죂 one block?
Hangul groups a syllable's letters in one writing cell.
King Sejong introduced Hangul to make Korean writing easier to learn and better suited to the language. The earliest official record lists 28 letters in 1443; an explanatory text called Hunminjeongeum followed in 1446. In that 1446 explanation, Sejong describes the script as suited to Korean and accessible to his subjects.
죂 follows the regular method of combining modern Hangul letters. Unicode can store a modern Hangul syllable either as one precomposed block or as its sequence of conjoining jamo.
Neutral as a syllable inside Korean writing; its role is unclear alone.
Alone, it can look like stray or test input.
Who writes 죂
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsOne syllable within the word; Korean context supplies its meaning.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1죂 in different fonts—what changes?
The character stays the same; fonts can change the shape, size, and placement of its component letters.
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How to type or find 죂
- Search it as
- jwaep · jamo · Dubeolsik · Korean IME · Hangul block · type 죂 · Hangul font
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
죂\C8C2Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.