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뀕

hangul syllable ggwilg

Hangul syllable ggwilg

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뀕 is one written Korean syllable in a Hangul block, not an emoji. It combines an initial consonant, a vowel and a final consonant cluster; the Korean word around it supplies its meaning.

Text symbol

What 뀕 means

It writes one Korean syllable; read it in its word. By itself, 뀕 does not translate to a word, mood or reaction. Read the Korean word that contains it: the block tells you the syllable, while the surrounding text supplies the word's meaning.

The earliest defensible evidence is for Hangul's 15th-century syllable-block system, not this exact block. King Sejong's court created Hunminjeongeum, the new Korean alphabet, in 1443 and published its principles in 1446 to help people who struggled with Chinese-character writing. Hangul later entered everyday writing; in 1894, the Korean government made it an official national writing system.

Hangul grew as a writing system, not as a one-off invention of 뀕. Before Hangul, Idu, Gugyeol and Hyangchal adapted Chinese characters to write Korean. Chinese writing and the Phags-pa script, another writing system, were studied around Hangul's creation; resemblance alone does not prove direct descent.

Neutral inside Korean writing; alone in a message, it is an unexplained syllable block.

Who writes 뀕

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What it means when someone sends it to you

2 readings

One syllable in the word; the surrounding word supplies its meaning.

Don't confuse it with

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Questions people ask

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Is 뀕 an emoji?

No. It is a Hangul text character; Unicode assigns it no emoji presentation or built-in reaction.

Why does 뀕 look different in different fonts?

Fonts draw different stroke shapes and spacing, and some make the syllable's component structure more visible.

How to type or find 뀕

Search it as
ggwilg · ggwil · hangul · korean · syllable · jamo · batchim · rieul
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType B015, then AltX to get 뀕.
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 ggwilg”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType b015, then Enter or Space.
HTML
뀕
CSS
\B015
Korean IME
Enter the initial consonant, vowel and final consonant cluster; the IME assembles them into one Hangul syllable block.
Normalization
NFD can expose the component jamo; NFC can return the precomposed block without changing its display.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
뀕
HTML hex
뀕
CSS content
content: "\B015";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%80%95
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