What 쟱 means
Type ㅈ ㅒ ㄹ ㅌ in a Korean IME.
On South Korea’s 2-set (Dubeolsik) keyboard, enter w il fx: these produce ㅈ, ㅒ, and final ㄾ. That final consonant cluster is called batchim, the consonant part at the bottom of a Hangul block. Stop after il and the IME produces 쟤.
Unicode represents the same syllable as the precomposed block 쟱 or the three conjoining jamo 쟱. A Korean IME normally combines the jamo into one block.
What does 쟱 mean by itself?
By itself, 쟱 is one written syllable, not a complete message.
Hangul writes Korean syllables in blocks: ㅈ is the initial consonant, ㅒ the vowel, and ㄾ the final consonant cluster. Read the surrounding word or phrase to understand what the syllable means there.
Hangul was created to write spoken Korean. The National Hangeul Museum cites 1443 for the earliest record of Hunminjeongeum, the book introducing the script; the book was published in 1446. Those dates belong to Hangul’s history, not to a separate invention of 쟱.
Neutral as Korean writing; this is a syllable spelling, not a complete utterance.
A lone 쟱 gives too little context for a message; read the word around it.
Who writes 쟱
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Questions people ask
1Why does 쟱 split into jamo?
The syllable can be stored as precomposed 쟱 or as the equivalent sequence 쟱. A font or app without Hangul shaping may show the jamo separately.
How to type or find 쟱
- Search it as
- 쟱 · jyaelt · jyae · hangul · jamo · batchim · korean · syllable
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
쟱\C7F1w il fx enters ㅈ, ㅒ, then final ㄾ.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.




