Korean syllable 쑍

쑍 is one Korean syllable; its word meaning depends on context.

Hangul, the Korean writing system, groups letters into syllable blocks. In 쑍, the initial consonant is ㅆ, the vowel is ㅛ, and the final cluster is ㄵ. Unicode can also store these as separate Hangul letters called jamo: ᄊ, ᅭ, ᆬ.

Hangul was devised in 1443 so people could write Korean without relying only on Chinese characters; a book explaining the script was completed in 1446. Unicode normalization can split 쑍 into jamo—the separate Hangul letters—or store it as one syllable block. A text inspector may show the pieces, while software with Hangul shaping support should render either form as the same syllable.