Hangul syllable Jyuc

It is a Hangul syllable block, built from three Hangul jamo. Hangul jamo are letters that combine into blocks: ᄌ is the opening consonant, ᅲ the vowel, and ᆾ the final consonant. “Jyuc” is Unicode's generated label from those letters' short names, not a Korean translation. The 1996 date attached to this character marks computer encoding, not Hangul's origin.

Hangul's earliest official creation record places it in December 1443. The 1446 Hunminjeongeum, a guide explaining the letters and how they work, set out the script's design. It was shaped to represent spoken Korean more directly than earlier writing practices that adapted Chinese characters.

Before Hangul, Idu adapted Chinese characters to write Korean; it was an earlier writing practice, not a visual ancestor of this syllable block. In the early period, Buddhist publications also used Hangul. By the late 19th century, Hangul had become a symbol of national identity, and the name Hangeul was widely used by 1928.

Why does 즃 show as a box?

A box usually means the font or app cannot render this glyph. Fallback may show a blank or replacement box. Try a font and app with Hangul support.

Normalization can split a precomposed syllable into its three jamo or compose that sequence back into one block. The text can look the same while its stored sequence differs; for exact string matching, compare normalized text.