Hangul Syllable Seuj

It is one Hangul syllable; context gives its word meaning.

Hangul arranges consonant and vowel letters into square syllable blocks. In a Korean word or name, 슺 contributes one syllable; read the whole word to understand its meaning.

With a Korean input method, enter ㅅ, ㅡ, then ㅈ; it joins them into 슺.

Why does Hangul use syllable blocks?

Hangul places its alphabetic parts together to write one syllable.

Unicode breaks 슺 into ᄉ, ᅳ, and ᆽ: an opening consonant, a vowel, and a closing consonant. They form one written syllable; fonts can adjust the positions and spacing of the strokes inside the square.

Sejong completed Hangul in 1443, and the book explaining the script, Hunminjeongeum, appeared in 1446. Hangul was designed to write Korean directly and coexisted with Idu, an older way of writing Korean with Chinese characters. In 1894, a decree made Korean the basis of official writing, while still allowing Chinese translations or mixed text.