Hangul syllable Tuc

퉃 is a Korean syllable written as one block. It joins initial consonant ᄐ, vowel ᅮ, and final consonant ᆾ; their compatibility forms are ㅌ, ㅜ, and ㅊ. Unicode builds “TUC” from the components’ short names, so it labels how the block is assembled rather than translating it.

Hangul’s design was completed in 1443, and the 1446 Hunminjeongeum (훈민정음) manuscript explained the script; its title means roughly “Correct Sounds for Instructing the People.” Hangul was created to let people write Korean with letters representing speech sounds, without first learning Chinese characters. It spread through letters, religious books, and fiction while Literary Chinese remained prestigious in formal writing, then became Korea’s main script. Its block shape can resemble a Chinese character, but its letters represent Korean sounds and were not derived from Chinese characters.

How do I type 퉃?

In Korean input mode, type ㅌ, ㅜ, then ㅊ. A Korean IME combines the initial consonant, vowel, and final consonant into the syllable; typing the English letters T-U-C is not the same instruction.

Unicode can also store the same text as three joining Hangul letters, called jamo: 퉃. NFC combines that sequence into 퉃; NFD expands the block into the same three letters. The displayed syllable can look unchanged even when the stored character sequence differs.