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꺃

hangul syllable ggaeh

Hangul syllable ggaeh

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꺃 is a Korean Hangul syllable block, not an emoji or a complete message with a fixed meaning. It combines ㄲ, ㅐ, and ㅎ; the Korean word or sentence around it supplies its meaning.

Text symbol

What 꺃 means

It is Korean text, not an emoji.

Hangul packs its component letters, called jamo, into one block: ㄲ starts this syllable, ㅐ is its vowel, and ㅎ closes it. 꺃 belongs inside a Korean word or sentence; it does not spell out a complete message by itself.

Hangul was devised under King Sejong in 1443 to make Korean easier to write than with Chinese characters; an explanatory publication appeared in 1446. Buddhist scriptures and then books of Confucian teaching helped carry the script outward. 꺃 was not invented as a separate sign; it follows Hangul's pattern of joining consonant and vowel letters in a syllable block.

A lone Hangul syllable does not settle a sender's tone; the surrounding Korean words do.

If it arrives alone, ask for context before reading a tone or reaction into it.

Who writes 꺃

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Don't confuse it with

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Questions people ask

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Why does 꺃 look different in another font?

It can. This is text, so the active Hangul font sets its stroke shapes and proportions; a changed outline does not make it a different character.

How to type or find 꺃

Search it as
꺃 · ggaeh · Hangul block · Korean syllable · Korean 2-set keyboard · type Korean syllable
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType AE83, then AltX to get 꺃.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable ggaeh”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType ae83, then Enter or Space.
HTML
꺃
CSS
\AE83
Korean 2-set on QWERTY
To type 꺃, enable Korean 2-set input on a QWERTY keyboard and press ShiftR, O, G. The input method combines ㄲ ㅐ ㅎ into one syllable block.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
꺃
HTML hex
꺃
CSS content
content: "\AE83";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%BA%83
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols