What 줬 means
It marks the past form of 주다, “to give.”
주 었 contracts to 주었, then 줬. Alone it means “gave”; after another verb, -어 줬- means “did it for someone.”
Why does Korean write this as one block?
It is a compact Hangul syllable block, not a pictogram.
Hangul was first recorded in 1443 and explained in the 1446 Hunminjeongeum guide as a system for writing Korean speech. This block stacks initial ㅈ, vowel ㅝ, and final ㅆ to write the sound jweoss.
The block is neutral; the full ending sets casual, polite, or formal tone.
Read the whole form: 줬어, 줬어요, or 줬습니다.
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Who writes 줬
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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주었 The uncontracted spelling of the same past form; 주었 shortens to 줬 in everyday writing.
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How to type or find 줬
- Search it as
- jweoss · 줬어 · 줬어요 · 줬다 · 주다 · 주었어 · gave · helped
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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줬CSS
\C92C2-set Korean IME
Type ㅈ ㅜ ㅓ ㅆ; on QWERTY: w n j ShiftT.
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HTML decimal
줬
HTML hex
줬
CSS content
content: "\C92C";
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URL encoded
%EC%A4%AC
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On screen
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
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