Hangul Syllable Sseulh

쓿 is the stem of 쓿다, a Korean verb for preparing grain. The verb means pounding rough rice, millet, or sorghum to remove the grain's inner husk and clean it. The syllable combines initial consonant ᄊ, vowel ㅡ, and final consonant cluster ᆶ.

Hangul was announced in 1443; the explanatory book Hunminjeongeum appeared in 1446. It explained a writing system in which alphabetic consonant and vowel letters combine into square syllable blocks. Before Hangul, people wrote Korean with Chinese characters and adapted methods such as Idu, Gugyeol, and Hyangchal, which used those characters to represent Korean sounds or grammar.

Hangul later appeared in Buddhist and Confucian texts, practical writing, letters, and everyday labels. It became Korea's official national writing system in 1894, lost that status under Japanese rule in 1910, and the name Hangeul began appearing in the early 1910s. These changes concern the script's public role, not a separate meaning for 쓿.

How do I type 쓿?

Use a Korean IME, or enter C4FF and press Alt+X in Word.

On a Korean keyboard layout, enter ㅆ, then ㅡ, then ㅀ. A Korean input method editor (IME) combines them as initial consonant, vowel, and final cluster.

In Microsoft Word, type C4FF and press Alt+X. Unicode normalization can store the same syllable precomposed as 쓿 (NFC) or as the canonical jamo sequence 쓿 (NFD); compare normalized text if search or equality checks disagree.