What 끵 means
A historical Korean syllable: a reading for 旗, meaning “flag.”
끵 is a precomposed Hangul syllable block built from the jamo ᄁ, ᅴ, and ᆼ—the letters that combine into Korean syllables. The 1448 Dongguk Jeongun, a Korean pronunciation and rhyme dictionary for Chinese characters, records it as a reading of 旗. The later dictionary Hunmong Jahoe records the related spelling 긔 in 1527; the modern Korean reading is 기.
Hangul was devised in 1443 and explained in Hunminjeongeum in 1446 as a way to write Korean more accessibly than with Chinese characters. Dongguk Jeongun (1448) had a different job: it assigned Korean readings to Chinese characters. Unicode encoded the Hangul syllable inventory in 1996; that marks computer encoding, not the age of this spelling.
Is 끵 an emoji?
It is a Hangul text syllable, not an emoji.
Its meaning belongs to Korean spelling and historical context, not a standard reaction. If someone sends only 끵, ask which word or source they meant.
A historical Korean reading; without that context, a lone 끵 is hard to interpret in chat.
Don't read a lone 끵 as modern 기; they are distinct historical and modern spellings.
Who writes 끵
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 끵 show as a missing glyph?
A font may lack this Hangul syllable block and show a fallback box instead. The displayed mark does not change the underlying character.
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How to type or find 끵
- Search it as
- 끵 · ggying · kkuy · Korean keyboard · Hangul jamo · historical Korean syllable · Dongguk Jeongun · reading 旗
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
끵\B075Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.