Hangul syllable 퇐

On a Korean 2-set layout, enter ㅌ + ㅗ + ㅏ + ㅆ. A 2-set layout (두벌식) keeps consonant and vowel keys separate. On a QWERTY keyboard—the familiar Latin-letter arrangement—press x, h, k, then Shift+T; the Korean input method joins them into 퇐. Here h and k enter ㅗ and ㅏ, which combine into the vowel ㅘ.

The syllable block has initial consonant ㅌ, compound vowel ㅘ, and final consonant ㅆ in the bottom slot, called 받침. The final letter occupies a different position from an initial consonant; it is not a second initial.

What does 퇐 mean by itself?

It spells one Hangul syllable; surrounding text supplies the word's meaning. The sound contributes to a Korean word or name, whose context tells you what it means.

If someone sends 퇐 alone, the character does not tell you which Korean word, name, or input fragment they intended. Ask what text or input context it belongs to. Hangul, the Korean writing system, was created in 1443 and explained in Hunminjeongeum, a guide to the script, in 1446. It was designed to write Korean directly and make literacy more accessible. It became Korea's official national writing system in 1894. 퇐 is one syllable block formed by Hangul letters; those milestones describe the writing system, not a separate origin story for this block.

Why does 퇐 show as separate letters?

Separate letters can still spell the same syllable. Software may represent 퇐 as one precomposed syllable block or as the separate modern Hangul letters (jamo) 퇐. Unicode normalization can convert between those equivalent forms. Some apps or fonts show the separate letters with unusual spacing or alignment; they still spell 퇐.