What 꼘 means
Type ㄲ, then ㅖ, then ㄹ with Korean input enabled.
These are the initial consonant, vowel, and final consonant jamo (Korean letters). A Korean input method joins them into one block; physical key labels depend on the keyboard layout.
What does 꼘 mean in a Korean word?
It writes one Korean syllable; the word supplies the meaning.
Read 꼘 as a spelling unit. The Korean word it appears in gives this syllable its meaning; the Unicode name is a reading label, not a translation.
How did Hangul blocks develop?
Hangul, the Korean writing system, developed its recognizable block format in the 15th century to represent Korean speech. Its letters fit together into a syllable-shaped unit.
Modern Korean spelling traces to a unified spelling proposal from 1933. Unicode represents a syllable either as one precomposed block, such as 꼘, or as three separate Hangul letters: ᄁ ᅨ ᆯ. Fonts can change how those letters sit inside the block.
Neutral in Korean writing: it represents a syllable, while the word supplies the meaning.
Who writes 꼘
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 꼘 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.
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How to type or find 꼘
- Search it as
- 꼘 · Hangul block · Korean jamo · jamo · Hangul syllable · Hangul decomposition · Korean writing
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
꼘\AF18Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.