Hangul syllable Saelm

It represents one syllable within a Korean spelling.

Its layout joins ㅅ, the initial consonant, with vowel ㅐ and final ㄻ, a pair of consonants formed from ㄹ + ㅁ. The syllable contributes to a Korean word; its meaning comes from that word.

Hangul was created in 1443 and introduced in 1446 as a more accessible way to write Korean for people who had not learned Chinese characters. Its use spread from a script with limited status in formal life into private letters, religious texts, teaching, and everyday writing.

How do I type 샒?

In a Korean IME, enter ㅅ, ㅐ, ㄹ, then ㅁ.

An input method editor (IME) joins these Hangul jamo—letters used to build syllable blocks—into 샒 as you type. On a standard two-set Korean keyboard, switch to Korean input and type the four keys in that order.

Why does 샒 look like one block?

Hangul arranges consonants and vowels into compact syllable blocks.

샒 is stored as one precomposed Unicode character, although it represents several jamo. A font draws its visible form; another font can shape the strokes differently without changing the character.

Text software can normalize the block into its decomposed jamo sequence. Both forms represent the same syllable, but a program comparing raw text may treat the sequences as different until it normalizes them.