Hangul syllable Ggyij

It represents one Korean syllable; its name is not a translation. The Unicode name label “ggyij” describes the block’s structure: initial ㄲ, vowel ㅢ, and final ㅈ.

In Korean writing, it contributes one syllable to a word. Read the surrounding blocks to understand the word’s meaning.

Why was Hangul made?

To write Korean speech with letters designed for its sounds. King Sejong’s court created the script. The Sejong Sillok (the king’s royal annals) records it in 1443; the Hunminjeongeum book, published in 1446, explains the letters and how initial consonants, vowels, and optional final consonants form syllable blocks. Korean had been written with Chinese characters, which did not directly represent Korean speech.

The script was first called Hunminjeongeum; Hangeul became a widely used name by 1928. Hangul blocks arrange consonant and vowel letters into one syllable, and 끶 follows that system.

How do I type or display 끶?

Use a Korean input method to assemble the block. A Korean input method editor (IME) builds the syllable as you type; the exact keystrokes depend on your keyboard layout.

Unicode normalization—the standard for representing equivalent text consistently—can keep 끶 as one precomposed block in NFC or represent it as three conjoining Hangul letters, called jamo, in NFD. Fonts may vary the jamo’s shape, size, and placement from font to font.