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쑬

hangul syllable ssul

Hangul syllable 쑬

쑬 is a Korean Hangul syllable whose meaning comes from the word or sentence around it. You may encounter it in an ordinary Korean verb form; the syllable itself has no fixed standalone meaning.

Text symbol
Also called
ssul
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Korean syllable meaning · Korean IME · Korean input · Hangul · jamo · 쑬 meaning
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What 쑬 means

It has no fixed meaning outside its Korean word or phrase.

Read 쑬 as one syllable in a Korean word or sentence; nearby letters and grammar show its role. In 풀을 쑬 때 (“when making paste”), 쑬 is a form of 쑤다 (“to make paste”) used before 때 (“when”).

Hangul was devised in 15th-century Korea to write Korean speech with letters arranged into syllable blocks. In 1446, King Sejong issued Hunminjeongeum, a guide to the new letters and their use. Before Hangul, Korean writing also used Chinese characters and kugyŏl, marks that helped readers follow Korean grammar in Chinese-character texts.

How do I type 쑬?

Enter ㅆ, ㅜ, then ㄹ in a Korean input method.

Unicode’s component breakdown of 쑬 is ᄊ (initial consonant), ᅮ (vowel), and ᆯ (final consonant). A Korean input method composes the corresponding jamo—ㅆ, ㅜ, ㄹ—into 쑬; without Hangul composition, they can stay separate.

Hangul fonts may position the component letters differently inside the block. The layout can change while the character stays the same.

Neutral Korean text; the surrounding sentence sets the tone.

For Korean slang meaning “story,” check the vowel: the syllable is 썰.

What it means when someone sends it to you

2 readings
Inside a Korean sentence
Read it as one syllable in its word; the surrounding grammar shows its role.
Sent by itself
It may be an incomplete word or verb form; the syllable alone does not settle which.

Don't confuse it with

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Questions people ask

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Why does 쑬 look different in another font?

The character is unchanged. Hangul typefaces can position the component letters differently inside the syllable block, so the layout varies while the character remains the same.

How to type 쑬

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType C46C, then Alt+X to get 쑬.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable ssul”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType c46c, then Enter or Space.
HTML
쑬
CSS
\C46C
Korean input method
Enter ㅆ, then ㅜ, then ㄹ; the input method composes the block 쑬.
Without Hangul composition
An input method without Hangul composition may leave the jamo as separate characters.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
쑬
HTML hex
쑬
CSS content
content: "\C46C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%91%AC
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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Korean syllables11,623 symbols