Hangul syllable 긳

It spells a Korean syllable; a complete word supplies its meaning.

Hangul is the Korean alphabet. This block joins ㄱ (its initial consonant), ㅣ (its vowel), and ㄳ (a final pair of consonants). These individual Hangul letters are called jamo. The decomposed spelling is 긳; the complete Korean word gives the syllable its meaning.

Why are Korean letters arranged in blocks?

Hangul groups its alphabet letters into written syllables.

Hangul was designed in fifteenth-century Korea as a way to write Korean speech. The project offered a more direct way to write Korean than relying on Chinese characters alone.

The documentary trail begins with 1443 and 1446: a royal record mentions the new letters, and Hunminjeongeum, an explanatory book about them, sets out their design and use. Korean scholarship compares Hangul's design with 'Phags-pa, an earlier writing system, and Chinese traditions for classifying speech sounds, while treating Hangul's letters as an independent design. Hangul went from a newly introduced alphabet to the everyday writing system used for Korean.

How do I type 긳?

Use Korean keyboard input to join the letters in order.

With a Korean IME (Korean keyboard input), enter ㄱ, then ㅣ, then ㄱ and ㅅ. The IME joins the last two consonants into final ㄳ and produces 긳.

The decomposed sequence 긳 can appear as separate letters in a font or app without Hangul shaping support. That is a display issue; the separate-letter sequence is different text from the single-block form 긳.