What 꾜 means
Alone, 꾜 gives a syllable sound; its Korean word gives the meaning. It combines the opening consonant ㄲ with the vowel ㅛ; no consonant follows the vowel. Hangul arranges these letters in one compact syllable block.
Hangul’s earliest documented court record dates to 1443 and names the new 28-letter writing system Hunminjeongeum. The explanatory book Hunminjeongeum appeared in 1446; it describes the letters, their sounds, and how consonants and vowels assemble into syllable blocks. These dates establish the script’s early history, not the first appearance of this exact syllable.
King Sejong’s project aimed to make reading and writing Korean easier for people shut out of literacy centered on Chinese characters. In 1933, Korean spelling reform replaced older spellings such as ㅺ for tense consonants—pronounced with a tight articulation—with the standard spelling ㄲ. That history explains the spelling of 꾜’s opening consonant.
How do you type 꾜?
On the standard Korean 2-set layout, press ShiftR, then Y.
ShiftR enters ㄲ and Y enters ㅛ; the Korean input method combines them into 꾜. If you get Latin R or Y, switch the active input language to Korean.
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Questions people ask
1Why does 꾜 appear as one square instead of two letters?
It is a precomposed Hangul syllable block. Unicode can also represent it as a sequence of jamo, the individual Hangul letters; normalization can convert between those equivalent forms without changing the reading.
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꾜\AF9CCodes and encoding1 code points
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