What 죹 means
Use Korean Hangul input; type ㅈ, ㅛ, then ㅌ. A Korean input method editor (IME) combines these separate Hangul letters, called jamo, into 죹 as you type. If they stay apart, the keyboard or text field may not be composing Hangul.
Fonts can change the shape, proportions, and placement of the three parts inside the square block. That changes its appearance, not the character.
Does 죹 have a word meaning?
Its name describes a syllable, not a dictionary meaning. 죹 combines initial consonant ㅈ, vowel ㅛ, and final consonant ㅌ. Unicode's Hangul syllable name follows those components; the meaning of any Korean word containing it comes from the word as a whole.
Hangul was designed to make writing Korean more accessible when formal literacy relied heavily on Chinese characters, known in Korean as Hanja. A chronicle kept by Korea's royal court records, in late December 1443, the announcement of 28 letters for writing Korean. The Hunminjeongeum, a book explaining the new writing system, was published in the ninth lunar month of 1446.
Neutral in Korean writing; alone, it gives no clear message beyond a syllable fragment.
Read a lone 죹 as text or an input test unless the context makes its role clear.
Who writes 죹
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Questions people ask
1Why does 죹 look different in different fonts?
A font draws its parts differently. Their shape, size, and position can vary while the character stays the same.
How to type or find 죹
- Search it as
- 죹 meaning · how to type 죹 · 죹 Korean keyboard · 죹 font · Hangul syllable block · Hangul jamo
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
죹\C8F9Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

