Hangul syllable Jyid

On its own, 즫 is a syllable without a fixed word meaning.

Hangul writes Korean syllables in blocks built from consonant and vowel letters. A block gets its word meaning from the larger Korean word around it, so this one is best read as a syllable excerpted from a word.

Why are Hangul syllables arranged in blocks?

**Each square block groups alphabetic letters into one spoken syllable.

Hangul was designed in Korea as an alphabet whose consonant and vowel letters could be assembled into square syllable blocks. The system was completed in 1443 and introduced in 1446 to make Korean writing more accessible to people who had difficulty with Hanja, the Chinese characters also used in Korean writing. 즫 is one regular combination in that system, not a separately devised sign.

How do I type 즫?

A Korean input method can assemble its initial, vowel, and final letters.

A Korean input method editor (IME) builds it from initial consonant ㅈ, vowel ㅢ, and final consonant ㄷ. On some layouts, typing the compound vowel ㅢ takes more than one key.

Unicode's NFC form normalizes it to one precomposed block; NFD normalizes it to the canonical sequence ᄌ + ᅴ + ᆮ. These are two encodings of the same syllable, so software comparing raw text may need to normalize it first.