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hangul syllable jwak

Hangul Syllable Jwak

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좤 is a Korean Hangul syllable block built from the initial consonant ㅈ, vowel ㅘ, and final consonant ㅋ. By itself it carries no fixed message meaning; inside a Korean word, the whole word supplies the meaning. If sent alone, treat it as a fragment and ask what text it belongs to.

Text symbol

What 좤 means

It spells one Korean syllable, not a fixed message.

좤 combines three Hangul letters: the initial consonant ㅈ, vowel ㅘ, and final consonant ㅋ. Inside a Korean word, it contributes one syllable; the complete word supplies the meaning. Alone, it does not tell you which word was intended.

Hangul was created in 1443; Hunminjeongeum, a text from 1446, explained its sounds and how the letters combine. The script offered a way to write Korean more directly than relying on Chinese characters. It circulated among common people and in women's letters while elite official writing favored Chinese characters; by 1894, Hangul had entered state documents.

Language-specific and technical; to someone who does not read Korean, an isolated send may look like a typo.

Do not assign it a reaction; ask what Korean text it belongs to.

Who writes 좤

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What it means when someone sends it to you

2 readings

A syllable fragment without a clear word or reaction; ask what surrounding text it belongs to.

Don't confuse it with

2

좤 This is the decomposed spelling of the same syllable. It may look similar, but text tools can count its three letters separately from one precomposed block.

Questions people ask

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Why does 좤 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 or find 좤

Search it as
좤 · 좍 · Korean keyboard · Hangul keyboard · Korean IME · Hangul IME · Dubeolsik · Hangul typing
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType C8A4, then AltX to get 좤.
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 jwak”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType c8a4, then Enter or Space.
HTML
좤
CSS
\C8A4
How to type 좤
On a Korean 2-set (Dubeolsik) layout, type W H K Z for ㅈ ㅗ ㅏ ㅋ; the input method combines ㅗ and ㅏ into ㅘ.
Separate-letter form
For a workflow that needs separate conjoining letters, use 좤. If it needs one precomposed block, normalize to NFC.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
좤
HTML hex
좤
CSS content
content: "\C8A4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%A2%A4
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

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

Families this belongs to

2

Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols