Hangul Syllable Tyaet

It is one Korean syllable block built from three Hangul letters. In 턭, ㅌ starts the syllable, ㅒ is its vowel, and ㅌ closes it. The block gives you a syllable sound, not an English gloss; the surrounding Korean word supplies the meaning.

Hangul was created in 1443. The Hunminjeongeum, a guide explaining the new writing system, was published in 1446. Those dates mark Hangul's origin, not a special meaning for this syllable.

Why was Hangul created?

It was designed to make writing Korean easier to learn. Before Hangul, Korean could be written with Chinese characters and Korean systems that adapted them, including Idu, Gugyeol, and Hyangchal. These were difficult ways to record Korean; Hangul's letters combine into syllable blocks.

Hangul spread through religious, practical, literary, and everyday publications. In Korea, it became an official national writing system in 1894, lost that status under Japanese rule in 1910, and was researched, taught, and developed again after liberation in 1945.

How do I type 턭?

Use a Korean IME or enter its component letters. Type ㅌ, ㅒ, then ㅌ; an input method editor assembles them as 턭. In Unicode normalization, NFC keeps the precomposed block; NFD splits it into jamo, the Hangul letters that form it. A font or app may still draw those parts together as one block.

For direct Unicode input, enter U+D12D in a code-point input tool or character picker.