Hangul syllable Ssoej

Its meaning depends on the Korean word or sentence around it. Inside this Hangul syllable block, initial consonant ㅆ, vowel ㅚ, and final consonant ㅈ are assembled together.

Hangul was created in 1443, and Hunminjeongeum—a text explaining the writing system’s purpose and principles—was published in 1446. Hangul offered a more accessible way to write Korean than Chinese-character-based methods that many people found difficult. Those dates belong to the writing system, not to Unicode’s encoding of this syllable.

How do I type 쑂?

A Korean IME combines the smaller Hangul letters into one syllable block.

On a Korean IME (keyboard input software), enter the initial consonant ㅆ, vowel ㅚ, then final consonant ㅈ; it composes them as 쑂. These smaller Hangul letters are called jamo. Some older Korean writing uses conjoining jamo: letters joined into syllable shapes rather than represented as one precomposed character.

A font can change the components’ placement, shape, and size inside the block. The outline may shift from one font to another while the character stays 쑂.