Hangul Syllable Tot

It is one Korean syllable, not a complete word.

The block groups an initial consonant, the vowel ㅗ, and a final consonant; its visible parts are ㅌ + ㅗ + ㅌ. Unicode’s canonical decomposition writes those positions with separate Korean jamo: 톹. The label “tot” identifies the sound pattern, not a translation.

Hangul, Korea’s writing system, was devised under King Sejong in 1443 and promulgated in 1446 so Korean speech could be written with its own alphabet. Korean writing had long drawn on Chinese characters. Hangul grouped letters into square syllable blocks; woodblock printing and later movable type carried that layout into print, and digital text still uses the same blocks.

Why does 톹 change shape across fonts?

Fonts change its proportions, not its letters.

Hangul typefaces fit each syllable into a square cell and may shift or resize the component letters to balance the block. That changes the spacing and proportions while leaving the text the same.

Unicode can also decompose 톹 into the canonical jamo sequence 톹. Software may store the syllable as one precomposed block or as that equivalent sequence. NFC normalization can compose the sequence again; separated parts are a representation difference, not a new syllable.

How do I type 톹?

Use Korean 2-set input: x-h-x.

With a Korean 2-set IME active, type x-h-x on a QWERTY keyboard. Those keys enter initial ㅌ, vowel ㅗ, and final ㅌ, and the IME assembles them as 톹.

If text is stored as the conjoining-jamo sequence 톹, NFC normalization can compose it into 톹.