Hangul Syllable Tyi

틔 is a Hangul syllable block, not an emoji or a word on its own. Its meaning comes from the Korean word around it, most often 틔우다, to sprout, open, or clear a blockage. Spelled with ㅢ, it is pronounced [티].

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What 틔 means

Read it inside its word, not by itself. Alone, 틔 is a sound-and-spelling unit with no fixed translation.

Hangul was first recorded in 1443 and explained in 1446 as a way to write Korean more easily than Chinese characters allowed. Inside 틔우다 the dictionary gives [티우다], with senses from opening a passage to helping a sprout emerge.

Unicode treats 틔 as ㅌ ㅢ, while fonts show one joined block. Korean extends 싹을 틔우다 from literal sprouting to figurative beginnings like hope; that metaphor belongs to the phrase, not the block.

Part of the collection

가

Korean Syllables (Hangul Characters)

Who writes 틔

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Questions people ask

Why does 틔 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.