What 꼄 means
It is one Korean syllable, not an emoji. The letters ㄲ, ㅕ, and ㅁ combine to read ggyeom; a Korean word supplies the meaning. Alone in a chat, it leaves the intended word unclear, so ask for context.
Hangul’s creation was first recorded in 1443, and Hunminjeongeum, a book explaining its principles, was published in 1446. Hangul was designed to write Korean speech more directly than Chinese-character writing and systems such as Idu, which used Chinese characters to write Korean. Early texts combined Hangul with Hanja (Chinese characters used in Korean); toward the end of the 19th century, writing shifted toward Hangul-only use. This is the script’s history, not a special meaning for 꼄.
Neutral within Korean writing; alone, it is an unexplained syllable fragment.
Do not treat it as a conventional reaction; the syllable alone does not identify a word.
Who writes 꼄
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsOne syllable in the word; the word supplies the meaning.
Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 꼄 look different in different fonts?
Hangul fonts draw syllable blocks with different strokes and proportions. Unicode can also represent 꼄 as the equivalent jamo sequence 꼄; software may shape that sequence differently, but it is still the same syllable.
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How to type or find 꼄
- Search it as
- ggyeom · Hangul · Korean syllable · Korean keyboard · jamo · Dubeolsik · type 꼄 · Korean character
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
꼄\AF04Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.