What 긿 means
It preserves an older Korean noun ending. In Middle Korean, 긿 meant “road” or “path”; Early Modern Korean also used it figuratively for “way” or “means.” As a ㅎ-final noun, its ㅎ could reappear before a vowel, make some following consonants aspirated (pronounced with a puff of breath), or disappear before particles (short grammatical endings).
King Sejong devised Hangul so Korean could be written in learnable syllable blocks. Its creation record dates to 1443; the explanatory publication appeared in 1446. Hangul later appeared alongside hanja, Chinese characters used in Korean writing.
Historical-literary: ordinary modern Korean uses 길.
Outside an older-text context, it may look like a typo.
Who writes 긿
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Questions people ask
1Why does 긿 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 긿
- Also called
- kilh · kílh
- Search it as
- 긿 meaning · Middle Korean 긿 · 긿 old Korean · type 긿
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
긿\AE3FCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.