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텩

hangul syllable tyeog

Hangul syllable Tyeog

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텩 is a Hangul syllable block, not a word with a fixed meaning on its own. It combines ㅌ, ㅕ, and final ㄱ, so the surrounding Korean text supplies its role. A poem uses it as a beat-like sound effect in a repeated sea-sound refrain.

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What 텩 means

It has no fixed word meaning on its own. 텩 is one Korean Hangul syllable block, built from consonant ㅌ, vowel ㅕ, and final consonant ㄱ. Hangul arranges Korean letters into syllable-sized blocks; a Korean word around 텩 supplies its word-level meaning.

Read 텩 as one syllable within Korean text. By itself, it does not identify a word or concept.

A poem uses it as a sound effect

Hangul was developed in 1443 and promulgated in 1446 so Korean speech could be written with a learnable alphabet. 텩 is a regular combination in that system, not a separately invented sign.

In 1908, 텩 appears in a repeated sea-sound refrain in Choe Nam-seon’s poem 해에게서 소년에게 (“From the Sea to the Boy”), printed in the first issue of the Korean publication 소년 (“Boy”). The poem repeats it among syllables imitating splashes and roars, where it works as a beat-like sound effect. That literary use is not a fixed definition for 텩.

On its own, a character lookup; in Korean text, one syllable inside a word.

Without surrounding Korean, do not assign it a word-level meaning.

Who writes 텩

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What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings

It identifies a Hangul syllable; by itself, it does not establish a word meaning.

Don't confuse it with

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Questions people ask

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Why does 텩 appear as separate jamo?

It can. A Hangul syllable can be stored as one block or as separate jamo (letters). A text tool that exposes the decomposed form may show ᄐ ᅧ ᆨ instead of one block.

How to type or find 텩

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텩 meaning · 텩 syllable · Hangul jamo · Korean keyboard · Korean IME · Hangul input · decomposed Hangul · 해에게서 소년에게
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType D169, then AltX to get 텩.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable tyeog”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType d169, then Enter or Space.
HTML
텩
CSS
\D169
Korean keyboard
How to type 텩: enable Korean input, then enter ㅌ, ㅕ, and ㄱ; the input method combines them into one block.
Decomposed jamo
The 텩 jamo sequence is ᄐ ᅧ ᆨ. Unicode NFC normalization, which recombines Hangul pieces, produces 텩.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
텩
HTML hex
텩
CSS content
content: "\D169";
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URL encoded
%ED%85%A9
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On screen
1
Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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