Hangul syllable Jyil

It is a Hangul syllable, not a word with fixed meaning. Hangul writes Korean in syllable blocks, so 즬 is read through the word or sentence around it. As of 2026-09-13, no standalone chat-reaction reading is established for this exact block.

Its three jamo—the letters used to build Hangul blocks—are ᄌ (initial consonant), ᅴ (vowel), and ᆯ (final consonant). The matching forms typed on common Korean IMEs are ㅈ, ㅢ, and ㄹ.

Where did this Hangul syllable come from?

Its documented connection is to Hangul, Korea's writing system. Hangul was created in 1443; in 1446, Hunminjeongeum—a book explaining the new writing system—set out its letters. Those dates trace Hangul's history, not the origin date of this particular block.

Hangul was designed to fit Korean speech and grammar and make reading and writing easier for the king's subjects. It also supported practical communication with neighboring languages.

How can I type 즬 with a Korean keyboard?

A Korean input method can build it from its jamo. An IME (input method editor) composes Korean letters into syllable blocks as you type. Enter ㅈ, ㅢ, then ㄹ; the IME combines them into 즬.

Unicode can store the block as one precomposed syllable or as the sequence 즬. Normalization can treat these as equivalent, but software may compare them differently when it does not normalize text. Fonts can also change the components' placement and proportions without changing the underlying syllable.