What 턺 means
It is a Hangul syllable block used in Korean spelling.
It combines ㅌ as its initial consonant, ㅓ as its vowel, and ㄻ as the final consonant group. In Korean, batchim means the consonant or consonant group at a syllable’s end; ㄻ is the batchim here. On its own, 턺 is a spelling unit, and the surrounding word supplies its role.
Why does Hangul use syllable blocks?
It arranges a syllable’s consonant and vowel parts in one block. Hangul was created in 1443 to make Korean easier to write. In 1446, Hunminjeongeum, a guide to the new writing system, explained it. Early Hangul appeared in translated works, Buddhist texts, practical manuals, dictionaries, and literature.
Unicode also represents the same syllable as the conjoining-jamo sequence 턺. This decomposed form is canonically equivalent to the precomposed block 턺; normalization can expose the component letters without changing the text’s canonical identity.
Neutral in Korean spelling; by itself, it does not supply a complete message.
A lone syllable block is not enough to infer a Korean word’s meaning.
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Don't confuse it with
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ㅌㅓㄹㅁ These are separate compatibility jamo, not the single precomposed syllable block 턺.
턺 This is the canonically decomposed sequence of conjoining jamo for the same syllable as 턺.
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턺\D13ACodes and encoding1 code points
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