Where does “ㅈ” come from?

ㅈ (Korean) comes from Translingual ꡛ, from Tibetan ས, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-grwa.

ㅈ (Korean): 지읒, a jamo (letter) of hangul, the Korean alphabet

Definitions

  1. 지읒, a jamo (letter) of hangul, the Korean alphabet

Ancestry of “ㅈ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Translingualꡛ'Phags-pa letter sa
2Tibetanསearth, land, soil, ground
3Proto-Sino-Tibetan*s-grwa—
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-grwa →Every word from Tibetan ས →Every word from Translingual ꡛ →