ㅊ

Stroke order

Korean

Etymology

From ㅈ (jieut) + additional horizontal line representing burst of aspiration.

Symbol

ㅊ • (ch or McCune-Reischauer: ch')

1. 치읓 (chieut), a jamo (letter) of the alphabet of the Korean writing system, hangeul.

   In the North Korean order, it is the tenth jamo. In the South Korean order, it is the fifteenth.

   ㅊ (chieut) is pronounced as an aspirated alveolo-palatal affricate ((deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕʰ]), i.e. similar to the English ch.