Hangul syllable gej

It spells one syllable within Korean text. On its own, it does not identify a complete word; the surrounding Korean letters supply the meaning.

Hangul was devised in 15th-century Korea under King Sejong to write Korean speech in a system tailored to its sounds, rather than relying only on Chinese characters. The earliest official record of Hangul is a 1443 entry in the Sejong Sillok, the annals of King Sejong; the 1446 book Hunminjeongeum explains the script's design. The modern spelling system is based on a unified proposal from 1933 and was partly revised in 1988. 겢 is one combination in this writing system, not a separate symbol with its own origin.

Why does 겢 form one block?

Hangul arranges letters, called jamo, into syllable blocks. In Unicode's composition process, the base syllable 게 can take final jamo ᆽ to form 겢; its spelling sequence is initial ㄱ, vowel ㅔ, and final ㅈ.

A Korean IME (input method editor) can assemble the syllable as you enter those parts. Text encoded as separate, joining jamo may also be shaped into a block, but the font and text system determine whether the parts join. The precomposed 겢 remains together as one character.