What 쒳 means
Type ㅆ, ㅞ, then ㅊ in a Korean IME.
A Korean IME (keyboard software that builds Hangul syllable blocks) combines those initial, vowel, and final Jamo—letters used to build Hangul blocks—into 쒳. In Unicode, the block decomposes canonically into ᄊ ᅰ ᆾ; software that handles the Jamo separately may leave them as separate characters.
sswec is the Unicode name assembled from the Jamo short names. It describes the block’s components, not a Korean word’s meaning.
What does 쒳 mean on its own?
It has no fixed meaning on its own.
A Hangul block is one written syllable, but its lexical meaning comes from the Korean word or sentence containing it. Its final consonant ㅊ is called batchim. Before a pause or another consonant, it is pronounced as an unreleased “t”; before a vowel, it joins the next syllable and sounds like “ch” in “church.”
Hangul was designed for writing Korean. It was announced in 1443; in 1446, the book Hunminjeongeum explained the script’s principles, after earlier reliance on Classical Chinese characters for writing Korean.
Who writes 쒳
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why can the final ㅊ sound different in a Korean word?
Before a pause or another consonant, Korean pronounces final consonants as unreleased stops; before a vowel, ㅊ joins the next syllable and keeps its “ch” sound, as in “church.”
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쒜Hangul Syllable Sswe
쒝Hangul Syllable Ssweg
쓏Hangul Syllable Sswic
쒱Hangul Syllable Ssweng
쒲Hangul Syllable Sswej
쒴Hangul Syllable Sswek
ᄀHangul Choseong Kiyeok
ᄁHangul Choseong Ssangkiyeok
ᄂHangul Choseong Nieun
ᄃHangul Choseong Tikeut
ᄄHangul Choseong SsangtikeutHow to type or find 쒳
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쒳\C4B3Codes and encoding1 code points
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