Hangul syllable Gep

On its own, 겦 gives a syllable sound, not a definition.

The decomposition of 겦 is three Hangul letters, called jamo: ㄱ starts the block, ㅔ is its vowel, and ㅍ closes it. The parts show how to read and type the syllable, but not which word it belongs to; surrounding Korean text supplies that meaning.

Hangul was devised in 1443; its design was explained in Hunminjeongeum, a book published in 1446. Its square blocks look visually familiar beside Chinese characters, but the components inside each block represent Korean sounds.

How do I type 겦?

Use a Korean input method to build it from ㄱ, ㅔ, and ㅍ.

On the common two-set Dubeolsik keyboard layout, type r, p, v in that order. The Korean input method combines them into one syllable block; those Latin keys do not appear in the result.

Some editors leave a syllable as separate jamo. Unicode treats the precomposed block and its equivalent sequence of Hangul letters as the same syllable for normalization.

Why does 겦 look different in fonts?

Font design changes the strokes and spacing inside the block.

Hangul fonts arrange the initial consonant, vowel, and final consonant inside a square cell, so proportions can vary. If the active font lacks a glyph for this block, it may appear as a box.