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꽝

hangul syllable ggwang

Hangul Syllable Ggwang

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In Korean, 꽝 means “no prize,” or a dud or failure. As a sound effect, it is a bang or heavy thud. After a result, it means no win; after a crash, it names the noise.

Text symbol

What 꽝 means

For a draw, it means you got nothing. It can label a disappointing result a dud.

A 2011 dialect survey records 꽝꽝 as a falling object's thud.

Casual and blunt.

After a result, default to “no prize.”

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Who writes 꽝

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What it means when someone sends it to you

4 readings

No prize.

Don't confuse it with

2

Combination ideas

1
Repeated heavy thuds.

Questions people ask

1

Why does 꽝 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 꽝

Also called
kkwang
Search it as
꽝 meaning · 꽝꽝 · 꽝 vs 쾅 · 꽝 vs 꽉
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType AF5D, then AltX to get 꽝.
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 ggwang”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType af5d, then Enter or Space.
HTML
꽝
CSS
\AF5D
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
꽝
HTML hex
꽝
CSS content
content: "\AF5D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%BD%9D
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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