Hangul syllable 껾

It is one Korean written syllable, not a complete word. Its parts are ㄲ, an initial consonant; ㅕ, a vowel; and ㄻ, a final consonant cluster. The romanized label ggyeolm describes the syllable’s sound, not an English meaning.

How 껾 is pronounced depends on the word around it. In 젊다, ㄻ is heard as m before ㄷ; in 젊어, ㄹ closes the first syllable and ㅁ begins the next.

Why was Hangul created?

It was designed to write Korean speech more directly. The earliest surviving official record of Hunminjeongeum, the text introducing Hangul, dates to late 1443. An explanatory work appeared in 1446 and describes the letters and how consonants and vowels form syllable blocks.

King Sejong’s preface describes a mismatch: Korean speech differed from Chinese, while Chinese characters were the established writing system. Earlier methods called Idu, Hyangchal, and Gugyeol adapted Chinese characters to record Korean sounds and endings or add reading notes. Hangul served Buddhist, Confucian, practical, and personal writing; it became an official national writing system in 1894. Debates over Hangul, Hanja (Chinese characters used in Korean writing), language, and identity sharpened in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

How do you type 껾?

In a Korean IME, enter the parts in order. On a standard 2-set Korean keyboard, use Shift+R for ㄲ, U for ㅕ, then F and A for ㄻ. The input method combines those Jamo into one syllable block.

Unicode represents Hangul as precomposed syllables or as conjoining Jamo. NFC keeps this modern syllable as one block; NFD decomposes it into Jamo. A font with Hangul shaping support can display the decomposed letters as the same syllable.