Hangul Syllable Sseot

It has no settled meaning on its own.

쎁 is one Hangul syllable block: ㅆ is its initial consonant, ㅓ its vowel, and ㅌ its final consonant. Alone, it gives no reliable reaction reading; the surrounding Korean words or sentence supply the context.

How did Hangul shape this syllable?

Hangul uses syllable blocks to write Korean.

Hangul took shape in 15th-century Korea as a system for writing Korean speech. Hunminjeongeum, the text that introduced the script, describes consonant and vowel letters assembled into syllable blocks to make written Korean easier to learn. 쎁 is one such assembly: its initial ㅆ is two ㅅ letters, followed by ㅓ and final ㅌ.

Modern Korean spelling follows a unified draft from 1933, with revisions in 1988. Those dates concern spelling rules, not a separate invention or later change in 쎁's meaning.

How do I type 쎁?

On a standard two-set Korean keyboard, enter ㅆ, then ㅓ, then ㅌ.

Use Shift to enter the tense initial ㅆ; the Korean input method combines it with ㅓ and ㅌ into 쎁.

Unicode also defines a canonical decomposition of this precomposed block into Hangul jamo, or letter parts. Software that does not normalize text may search, compare, or move through the decomposed and block forms differently, though they represent the same syllable.