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졡

hangul syllable jyelt

Hangul Syllable Jyelt

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졡 is a Hangul syllable block made from an initial consonant, a vowel, and a final consonant cluster. In a Korean word it contributes a syllable's sound; the word supplies the meaning. “Jyelt” names its parts in the Unicode label, not an English translation.

Text symbol

What 졡 means

By itself, 졡 has no fixed word-level meaning.

졡 combines initial ㅈ, vowel ㅖ, and final cluster ㄾ. Those components form one Hangul syllable; surrounding syllables help determine a Korean word's meaning. “Jyelt” follows the component labels in the Unicode name; it is not an English translation.

Who created Hangul, and why?

King Sejong created Hangul to make Korean easier to write. Hangul's creation is dated to 1443. The Hunminjeongeum Haerye, a guide to the new script published in 1446, explains how initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants form syllable blocks.

Before Hangul, Korean writers used Chinese characters and adapted them to Korean through practices called Idu, Hyangchal, and Gugyeol. These had different roles; Hangul added an alphabet for Korean speech, while Chinese characters and mixed writing continued alongside it. In 1894, a Joseon imperial order made Hangul official for state documents.

Neutral as Korean text; a lone 졡 supplies a syllable, and its word-level meaning needs context.

Who writes 졡

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Questions people ask

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Why does 졡 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 졡

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졡 meaning · 졡 keyboard · 졡 Hangul · jyelt · C861 · Korean IME · Hangul jamo · 2-set Korean keyboard
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType C861, then AltX to get 졡.
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 jyelt”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType c861, then Enter or Space.
HTML
졡
CSS
\C861
Korean IME
To type 졡, activate Hangul input and enter ㅈ ㅖ ㄹ ㅌ; the IME composes the final cluster ㄾ.
2-set key sequence
On the Korean 2-set layout, press w, ShiftP, f, x: wPfx to produce 졡.
Normalization
Precomposed 졡 and its decomposed sequence of individual Hangul letters can differ as text while rendering as the same syllable; normalize when software requires one form.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
졡
HTML hex
졡
CSS content
content: "\C861";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%A1%A1
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.

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