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꽖

hangul syllable ggwalp

Hangul syllable Ggwalp

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꽖 is one unit of Korean spelling: Hangul arranges consonants and vowels inside a square syllable block. This block also has an opening consonant and a final cluster; a Korean 2-set keyboard enters its parts in order.

Text symbol

What 꽖 means

It writes one Korean syllable. Hangul’s consonant and vowel letters, called jamo, fit together inside square syllable blocks. Here, ᄁ is the opening consonant, ᅪ the vowel, and ᆵ the final consonant cluster. Unicode’s standard split form is 꽈 ᆵ.

How did Hangul develop?

It was designed as an easy-to-learn way to write Korean. King Sejong, a Korean ruler, created Hangul in 1443. The 1446 book Hunminjeongeum, also the script’s original name, explained its purpose and principles. Earlier Korean writing relied on Chinese characters and Korean adaptations of them. Hangul also appeared in Buddhist scriptures and books on Confucian teaching, practical texts, personal letters and everyday labels; Chinese characters remained dominant in official records until Hangul became Korea’s official writing system in 1894.

Who writes 꽖

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Questions people ask

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Why does 꽖 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.

How to type or find 꽖

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꽖 · 꽖 meaning · Hangul syllable block · Korean keyboard · ggwalp
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType AF56, then AltX to get 꽖.
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 ggwalp”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType af56, then Enter or Space.
HTML
꽖
CSS
\AF56
Korean 2-set keyboard
With a Korean 2-set (Dubeolsik) keyboard active, type ShiftR, H, K, F, ShiftV. A Korean input method reads these as ㄲ, ㅗ, ㅏ, ㄹ, ㅍ and composes 꽖.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
꽖
HTML hex
꽖
CSS content
content: "\AF56";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%BD%96
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

2

Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols