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쇅

hangul syllable swaeg

Hangul syllable Swaeg

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쇅 is one Hangul syllable, not an independent word; its meaning comes from the word it belongs to. A Korean keyboard can assemble it from jamo—the Hangul consonant and vowel letters—into a single block.

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What 쇅 means

It is one Korean syllable; a word supplies its meaning.

The romanized label “swaeg” names the syllable's form; it is not a translation.

Hangul jamo are consonant and vowel letters: 쇅 combines ㅅ ㅙ final ㄱ.

Why was Hangul created?

It gave Korean speakers a way to write their language directly.

Hangul was devised in 1443; in 1446, the book Hunminjeongeum introduced and explained the script. Its practical purpose was to let Korean be written without relying on Chinese-character-based methods. During Japanese rule, Hangul also carried national identity significance.

Why does 쇅 split into jamo?

The same syllable can be stored as separate Hangul letters.

Unicode, the text standard used by software, defines modern Hangul blocks as an initial consonant, a vowel, and an optional final consonant. Fonts arrange those parts in a square cell; if a program exposes the decomposed form 쇅, it is still the same syllable.

Neutral in Korean writing; by itself, it reads like a character sample rather than a conversational reply.

Sent alone, 쇅 can look like a typo or stray paste.

Who writes 쇅

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What it means when someone sends it to you

2 readings

One syllable in the word; the whole word supplies the meaning.

Don't confuse it with

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Questions people ask

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What is the final ㄱ in 쇅?

It is the batchim, the consonant that closes this Hangul syllable; it does not add a separate word meaning.

How to type or find 쇅

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쇅 · swaeg · swaek · 쇅 meaning · 쇅 vs 쇄 · Hangul jamo · Korean keyboard · decomposed Hangul
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType C1C5, then AltX to get 쇅.
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 swaeg”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType c1c5, then Enter or Space.
HTML
쇅
CSS
\C1C5
Korean IME
To type 쇅 with a Korean IME, enter ㅅ ㅙ final ㄱ; the IME assembles one block.
Separate Hangul letters
Use 쇅 when software specifically needs the decomposed sequence; it represents the same syllable as 쇅.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
쇅
HTML hex
쇅
CSS content
content: "\C1C5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%87%85
1
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

2

Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols