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꼋

hangul syllable ggyeoc

Hangul syllable Ggyeoc

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On a Korean 2-set keyboard, ShiftR, U, C composes 꼋. It is one Hangul syllable block built from ᄁ, ᅧ, and ᆾ; its construction name does not translate as a word. If someone sends it alone, ask what Korean text or thought it belongs to.

Text symbol

What 꼋 means

Press ShiftR, then U, then C on a Korean 2-set keyboard.

With Korean 2-set selected on a QWERTY-layout keyboard, the input method joins ㄲ, ㅕ, and ㅊ into 꼋. If you type another vowel next, it may move final ㅊ to the next syllable as its initial.

What does 꼋 mean?

It is a Hangul syllable block, not a translation on its own.

Its parts are ᄁ (initial consonant), ᅧ (vowel), and ᆾ (final consonant). “Ggyeoc” labels that construction; it is not a Korean word to translate. The meaning of a word comes from the Korean text around it.

Hangul was devised in 1443, and the explanatory book Hunminjeongeum was published in 1446. It offered a more accessible way to write Korean than earlier systems that adapted Chinese characters: Idu, Gugyeol, and Hyangchal. Hangul gained official national recognition in 1894. During Japanese rule after 1910, it lost that status, while Korean intellectuals worked to preserve it.

What if someone sends 꼋 alone?

Treat it as unexplained text until context clarifies it.

Alone, 꼋 can be an input test, a typo, or a fragment of Korean text. It is not a reliable signal of affection, anger, sarcasm, or a meme, so ask what the sender meant.

Neutral Korean text; any tone comes from the surrounding words, not this block.

Alone, it can look like a typo or an input test.

Who writes 꼋

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Don't confuse it with

2

ㄲㅕㅊ These are three compatibility jamo shown separately; 꼋 is the precomposed syllable block.

Questions people ask

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Is 꼋 an emoji?

No. It is Hangul text; the block itself does not supply an emoji reaction meaning.

Why does 꼋 show as separate letters?

Unicode treats the decomposed sequence ᄁ ᅧ ᆾ as canonically equivalent to 꼋. A Korean input method may also show the jamo while it is still composing the syllable.

How to type or find 꼋

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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType AF0B, then AltX to get 꼋.
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 ggyeoc”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType af0b, then Enter or Space.
HTML
꼋
CSS
\AF0B
Korean 2-set keyboard
With Korean 2-set selected on a QWERTY-layout keyboard, press ShiftR, then U, then C; the input method joins ㄲ, ㅕ, and ㅊ as 꼋.
Following vowel
If you type a vowel next, the input method may move final ㅊ to the next syllable as its initial.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
꼋
HTML hex
꼋
CSS content
content: "\AF0B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%BC%8B
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