What 갖 means
Read 갖 within its Korean word. 갖다 is a shortened form of 가지다 (“to have” or “hold”); 갖고 links it to what follows.
Hangul was devised in 1443 to make Korean easier to write; the 1446 book Hunminjeongeum explained the script’s letters and purpose.
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Who writes 갖
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 갖 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.
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How to type or find 갖
- Search it as
- 갖다 meaning · 갖고 · 가지다 meaning
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
갖CSS
\AC16Korean input method
Enter ㄱ, then ㅏ, then ㅈ in a Korean input method to compose 갖. Unicode can also encode it as the equivalent sequence of conjoining jamo.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
갖
HTML hex
갖
CSS content
content: "\AC16";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%B0%96
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.