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꺗

hangul syllable ggyas

Hangul syllable ggyas

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꺗 is a Korean syllable whose meaning depends on the word it belongs to; it has no standalone word meaning. It also appears in a documented emphatic spelling after certain verb endings. Hangul builds syllable blocks from consonants and vowels, and a Korean 2-set keyboard assembles this one from those parts.

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What 꺗 means

By itself, 꺗 has no fixed word meaning. Hangul groups consonants and vowels into syllable blocks, so this character takes its reading and meaning from the Korean word around it. “Ggyas” is a romanized name, not a word definition.

꺗's documented spelling history is narrow. A 1989 Korean orthography article lists it among emphatic spellings that add final ㅅ (siot) after the verb endings 아 or 어. Hangul was created in 1443 and formally explained in 1446 to give Korean a more accessible writing system than relying on Chinese characters.

꺗 combines the doubled initial consonant ㄲ, the vowel ㅑ, and the final consonant ㅅ. With a Korean 2-set keyboard selected, enter them in that order; ᆺ is the syllable-final form of ㅅ.

Why does 꺗 appear as separate letters?

The text may be decomposed or not shaped as a Hangul syllable. Unicode can store a Hangul syllable as one precomposed block or as jamo, its consonant and vowel letters; a Hangul-capable font and shaping engine normally display either form as one syllable. A missing-glyph box points to font coverage.

A specialist Hangul spelling: meaningful inside its Korean word, opaque on its own.

Do not treat it as a whole word; the surrounding Korean word supplies its meaning.

Who writes 꺗

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What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings

One syllable in the word; its meaning comes from the whole Korean word.

Don't confuse it with

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Questions people ask

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Why does 꺗 show as separate jamo?

Sometimes. Unicode can store Hangul as a precomposed block or as separate jamo letters; a Korean-capable font and shaping engine normally display either form as one syllable.

How to type or find 꺗

Search it as
ggyas · ggya · ggya siot · Hangul block · Korean jamo · 꺗 typing
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType AE97, then AltX to get 꺗.
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 ggyas”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType ae97, then Enter or Space.
HTML
꺗
CSS
\AE97
Korean 2-set keyboard
How to type 꺗: select the Korean 2-set layout, then enter ㄲ, ㅑ, and ㅅ in that order; the input method composes one block.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
꺗
HTML hex
꺗
CSS content
content: "\AE97";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%BA%97
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