Hangul syllable Ggyaes

In a Korean Hangul IME, enter ㄲ, then ㅒ, then ㅅ.

An input method editor (IME) assembles Jamo—the Korean letters—into Hangul syllable blocks as you type.

What does 꺳 mean?

꺳 is one Korean syllable block; its meaning comes from context.

Its parts are ㄲ at the start, ㅒ in the middle, and ㅅ at the end. Jamo are Korean letters that join into syllable blocks; a block's word-level meaning comes from its place in the Korean text.

Hangul was devised in 1443 under King Sejong; the 1446 Hunminjeongeum, a book explaining the script, laid out its principles and purpose. It represented Korean sounds and grammar more directly than Chinese characters did, making reading and writing easier to learn. Hangul was used alongside Chinese characters, became Korea's official writing system in 1894, and faced suppression under Japanese rule after 1910; Korean scholars kept studying and preserving it. A debated theory connects Hangul's design to the earlier square-shaped Phags-pa script. 꺳 is one syllable block in that writing system.

Why does 꺳 show as a square?

A square means your font cannot display this Hangul character.

꺳 is text drawn by the font an app uses. Choose a font with Hangul coverage if the square persists. Unicode normalization, which gives equivalent text a standard stored form, has two relevant forms: NFC keeps 꺳 as one block, while NFD separates it into ᄁ + ᅤ + ᆺ. Both represent the same syllable, but software can count or compare their stored characters differently.