What 꼯 means
It is a syllable block, not a word with a fixed meaning.
The jamo inside 꼯—the Korean letters arranged in a syllable block—are ᄁ ᅩ ᆪ: an initial consonant, a vowel, and a final consonant cluster. “Ggogs” is the Unicode name's spelling of that structure, not a translation of a Korean word.
On its own, 꼯 does not identify a complete Korean word. A Korean IME (Korean input software) combines its letters into this block.
Why was Hangul created?
So Korean could be written directly and the alphabet learned more easily.
The earliest official record appears in 1443; a manuscript called Hunminjeongeum, published in 1446, explained the alphabet's design. Before Hangul, systems such as Idu, Gugyeol, and Hyangchal adapted Chinese characters to represent Korean.
Hangul later appeared in Buddhist and Confucian books, practical writing, letters, and literature. In 1894, it became Korea's official national writing system, after official documents had remained predominantly in Chinese characters. This is Hangul's history as a writing system; 꼯 is one syllable block within it.
In Korean writing, it is one syllable block; alone, it gives too little context for a complete word.
If it arrives alone, ask what Korean word it belongs to.
Who writes 꼯
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsAn isolated Korean syllable; it does not identify a complete word's meaning.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 꼯 show as a box?
A box usually means the selected font lacks 꼯. Some Korean fonts cover only part of the Hangul syllable range; choose a font with full Hangul coverage.
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How to type or find 꼯
- Search it as
- 꼯 · ggogs · Korean syllable · Hangul jamo · ㄳ · batchim · Korean IME · NFC
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
꼯\AF2FCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.