Hangul Syllable Jyet

It is a Hangul syllable built from ㅈ, ㅖ, and ㅌ. They are the initial consonant, vowel, and final consonant; the final-position form of ㅌ is ᇀ. By itself, 졭 identifies one syllable but not which word was intended, so use the surrounding Korean text to read its role.

Hangul's design was completed in 1443, and the Hunminjeongeum manuscript introduced the script in 1446. Hangul was designed to represent spoken Korean more directly than Chinese characters could; writing Korean with those characters required extra workarounds.

How do I type 졭?

Select Korean input and enter ㅈ, ㅖ, then ㅌ without spaces. A Korean IME, the software that converts keyboard input into Hangul, combines them as one syllable.

Unicode can represent 졭 as one ready-made syllable block or as a sequence of conjoining jamo, the position-specific letters used to build Hangul syllables. If input composition is interrupted, the parts may remain separate.

Why does 졭 look different?

A font or app may not join separate Hangul jamo into one block. Hangul places the starting consonant, vowel, and ending consonant together in a square syllable block. When a syllable is supplied as separate jamo, the app's text engine and font decide whether to join them and where to place each part. Limited shaping support can leave the parts apart; the underlying syllable is unchanged.