Hangul syllable kyac

It is one Korean syllable assembled from three Hangul letters. ㅋ begins it, ㅑ is its vowel, and ㅊ closes it. At the syllable end, ㅊ sounds like a clipped “t”; at the beginning of a syllable, it is “ch”-like. As of 2026-09-14, the National Institute of Korean Language dictionary did not list 컃 as a standalone word.

Hangul was created in 1443, and the 1446 Hunminjeongeum, a publication about the new writing system, explained its purpose and design. It offered a practical way to write Korean alongside Chinese characters, which many Korean speakers found difficult to learn. Hangul use expanded through Buddhist and Confucian texts and practical and official communication; in 1894, the Korean state adopted it as its official script.

Earlier Korean writing methods such as Idu, Gugyeol, and Hyangchal adapted Chinese characters to write Korean. These are part of Korean writing history; 컃 itself is assembled from Hangul letters.

How do I type 컃?

On a Korean two-set keyboard, type z-i-c. The standard Korean layout maps z to ㅋ, i to ㅑ, and c to final ㅊ; a Korean IME combines them into 컃.

Unicode treats the precomposed block and the sequence of its three Hangul letters as equivalent forms of the same syllable. An app may expose the letters separately during input or text processing, but they still represent 컃.