Hangul syllable Toc

“Toc” labels the syllable’s parts, not a word meaning.

Unicode decomposes 톷 as 톷: a starting consonant, vowel, and ending consonant. In the block, those Hangul letters, called jamo, appear as ㅌ, ㅗ, and ㅊ. Unicode’s short labels for them are T, O, and C, making “Toc.” At a syllable’s end, ㅊ sounds like a clipped “t.”

Hangul was devised under King Sejong to make Korean writing more accessible in a society where formal texts relied on Chinese characters. Historical records first note its original 28 letters in December 1443; the 1446 Hunminjeongeum, an explanatory book about the new script, describes how they assemble into syllable blocks.