What 걻 means
Use a Korean IME and enter the four Hangul letters in order.
On the 2-set QWERTY layout, ㄱ, ㅓ, ㄹ, and ㅂ use the keys r, j, f, and q, giving rjfq. A Korean IME assembles these letters into one syllable block as you type.
What does 걻 mean?
It is a Korean syllable block, not a standalone reaction.
걻 combines ㄱ, ㅓ, and the final consonant cluster ㄼ, made from ㄹ and ㅂ. Korean final clusters can be pronounced differently depending on the word and what follows, as in forms such as 밟-, 넓-, and 짧-. The spelling alone does not give 걻 a reliable spoken form.
Hangul was devised to represent Korean speech more accessibly than writing only with Chinese characters. Its earliest historical record is in 1443; the explanatory text Hunminjeongeum was completed in 1446. Hangul became Korea's official national writing system in 1894, then lost that status in 1910 under Japanese rule. Some scholars suggest the Phags-pa script influenced Hangul's design, but this is not settled.
As of 2026-09-13, 걻 has no headword in the National Institute of Korean Language's Basic Korean Dictionary and no established standalone chat meaning. Read it as technical Korean text unless surrounding words place it inside a word.
By itself, 걻 reads as Korean text, not a mood, joke, or emoji reaction.
Alone, it will not reliably signal a feeling; context in a Korean word gives it a role.
Who writes 걻
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
4Is 걻 an emoji?
No. It is a Hangul text character drawn by a font, not vendor-specific emoji artwork.
Why does 걻 look different in different fonts?
Fonts draw the character with different stroke shapes or spacing. Those are typographic differences, not separate emoji designs.
How is 걻 pronounced?
Not reliably by itself. Its final cluster ㄼ belongs to Korean spelling, and the spoken result depends on the word and the sound that follows.
Did Hangul's design draw on the Phags-pa script?
Possibly. Some scholars suggest an influence at the script-design level, but Phags-pa is not established as a direct ancestor of this syllable block.
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How to type or find 걻
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- 걻 · Hangul · Korean · geolb · rjfq · 2-set keyboard · ㄼ · dubeolsik
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
걻\AC7BCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.