What 죰 means
On a Korean 2-set keyboard, press W, Y, then A. With Korean input active, the keyboard software turns them into ㅈ, ㅛ, and ㅁ, then joins those parts as 죰.
During Korea’s Joseon dynasty, King Sejong completed Hangul in 1443. A book called Hunminjeongeum formally introduced the alphabet in 1446. Earlier systems such as idu and hyangchal adapted Chinese characters to write Korean; Hangul’s alphabetic letters represented Korean speech directly.
Two late-19th-century examples show 죰 as an older spelling of 좀 (“a little”): a language guide from 1895 and a newspaper from 1899. That spelling belongs to those historical passages; it does not settle what a modern sender means.
What does 죰 mean?
Alone, 죰 has no fixed meaning in modern Korean. It is one syllable, so the surrounding word or sentence supplies its meaning; by itself in a message, it may be a typo or unfinished spelling.
죰 and 좀 differ in the vowel: 좀 uses ㅗ, while 죰 uses ㅛ. The modern word 좀 means “a little”; the similarly shaped blocks are not interchangeable.
Neutral inside Korean writing; alone in a modern message, it can read as a typo or unfinished spelling.
For modern 좀, use ㅗ; 죰 has ㅛ.
Who writes 죰
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsOne syllable in the word; the surrounding spelling supplies its meaning.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 죰 show as jamo?
Text normalization, which puts equivalent text into standard forms, can represent 죰 as 죰, its three Hangul letter parts (jamo). It is the same syllable even if those parts appear separately.
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How to type or find 죰
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- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
죰\C8F0Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.