What 겡 means
In 겡국, 겡 names soup served at a Korean ancestral rite. Jeju is a Korean island; a 2017 oral-history record from there documents the compound.
In records from the Joseon dynasty, Korea's former royal era, 갱 appears as 羹, a Hanja character (a Chinese character used in Korean), for both everyday and ritual soup.
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Who writes 겡
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
1Jeju term for soup served at a Korean ancestral rite.
Questions people ask
1Why does 겡 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 겡
- Also called
- geng
- Search it as
- 겡 · 겡국 · 게영국
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
겡CSS
\ACA1How to type 겡
With Korean input set to the standard 2-beolsik (two-set) layout, type r-p-d (ㄱ ㅔ ㅇ); it composes 겡.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
겡
HTML hex
겡
CSS content
content: "\ACA1";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%B2%A1
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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.