What 걸 means
Its role depends on the Korean grammar around it. In 이걸, 걸 shortens 이것을, meaning “this” as the sentence’s object.
Attached sentence-final -을걸 can mark a guess or mild regret. In 먹을 걸 그랬어요 (“I should have eaten”), the space marks 걸 as a shortened form of 것을, separate from the ending.
Hangul was devised in 1443, and its principles were presented in 1446. Earlier systems such as 이두, 구결, and 향찰 adapted Chinese characters to write Korean. Hangul provided an alphabet designed for Korean.
Sentence-final -을걸 is informal and conversational.
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Who writes 걸
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Questions people ask
1Why does 걸 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 걸
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- 걸 · geol · meaning of 걸 · 이걸 · 것을 · -을걸 · 먹을 걸 그랬어요
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
걸\AC78Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.