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꼗

hangul syllable ggyed

Hangul syllable ggyed

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꼗 is a Hangul syllable block, not a word definition by itself. Korean text builds the block from three Hangul letters, and an input method can combine those parts when typing.

Text symbol

What 꼗 means

It represents a syllable; its meaning depends on the word around it. Hangul combines letters called jamo into syllable blocks. 꼗 has an initial consonant ᄁ, a vowel ᅨ, and a final consonant ᆮ. Unicode’s label “ggyed” describes this construction; it is not a Korean word to type.

Hangul, the writing system for Korean, was created in 1443; Hunminjeongeum, the book explaining it, was published in 1446. It was designed to make Korean easier to write than relying on Chinese characters. Over time, Hangul appeared in Buddhist texts, Confucian works (books about ethics and social life), practical books, letters, and everyday labels. 꼗 is formed by Hangul’s systematic syllable-block design.

Neutral and technical: it identifies a Hangul syllable or a specific typing target.

Who writes 꼗

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Don't confuse it with

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Questions people ask

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Why does 꼗 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 꼗

Search it as
꼗 meaning · 꼗 keyboard · Hangul jamo · Dubeolsik keyboard · Korean IME · Hangul keyboard
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType AF17, then AltX to get 꼗.
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 ggyed”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType af17, then Enter or Space.
HTML
꼗
CSS
\AF17
How to type 꼗
With the Korean Dubeolsik keyboard layout active, press ShiftR, ShiftP, then E. The Korean input method (IME) combines ㄲ ㅖ ㄷ into 꼗.
Separate jamo
Enter ᄁ ᅨ ᆮ in a Korean input method. If the sequence stays decomposed, Unicode NFC normalization recombines it as 꼗.
Latin keyboard
“ggyed” is Unicode’s label for the syllable, not a Latin-key spelling that types it.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
꼗
HTML hex
꼗
CSS content
content: "\AF17";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%BC%97
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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