Hangul syllable Jyaebs

쟶 is a Hangul syllable: initial, vowel, final cluster.

Here, ㅈ is the opening consonant, ㅒ the vowel, and ㅄ the final consonant cluster. Hangul’s individual letters are called jamo and combine into square syllable blocks; a word’s meaning comes from the whole word.

Unicode groups modern Hangul syllable blocks in the Johab set. It can also represent 쟶 as a sequence of jamo, which a Hangul-capable font shapes into the same block.

When did Hangul begin?

Hangul began as a Korean writing system in 1443. King Sejong created it so Korean could be written in its own script; before then, people in Korea relied on Chinese characters to write Korean.

The 1446 book Hunminjeongeum explained the new script’s purpose and principles. Early Hangul publications included Buddhist scriptures, everyday labels, and practical books. Chinese characters remained common in official documents until Hangul became the national writing system in 1894.