Hangul Syllable Sweh

Read it as Korean spelling, not a reaction icon.

쉫 represents one Hangul syllable: starting consonant ᄉ, vowel ᅰ, and final consonant ᇂ. Unicode calls these “joining jamo”: Hangul letters that combine into a syllable block. The generated label “sweh” names their pattern; it is not an English translation.

King Sejong devised Hangul to make Korean easier to write and learn. Before Hangul, Koreans adapted Chinese characters to write their language through methods such as Idu, Hyangchal, and Gugyeol; these are related approaches, not earlier forms of 쉫. The court annals record creation of 28 letters in December 1443; an explanatory manuscript was completed in 1446. Hangul later appeared in Buddhist and Confucian texts, practical books, and private letters. It became Korea's official national writing system in 1894; under Japanese rule beginning in 1910, it lost that status, though people continued using and studying it.

How do I type 쉫?

On a Dubeolsik keyboard, type t, n, p, then g.

Dubeolsik (“two-set”) is a standard Korean keyboard layout; turn on Korean input first. On this layout, t enters ㅅ, n enters ㅜ, p enters ㅔ, and the input method joins n + p into ㅞ before g adds final ㅎ. If the letters stay separate, check that Korean input and Dubeolsik are selected.