What 고 means
Its role depends on where it appears. The ending -고 can list actions or put them in sequence.
Hangul was devised in Korea to write Korean speech without relying on Chinese characters. Its creation is recorded in December 1443; the Hunminjeongeum document explained its principles in 1446.
Unicode treats 고 and ᄀ + ᅩ as equivalent forms: one syllable block or two joining letters.
Combination ideas
3Polite continuation of an open list.
Marks an ongoing action or state.
Expresses wanting to do something.
Questions people ask
1Why does 고 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.
How to type 고
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType ACE0, then Alt+X to get 고.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable go”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType ace0, then Enter or Space.
HTML
고CSS
\ACE0How to type 고
On Korean two-set input, enter ㄱ then ㅗ; the input method joins them as 고.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
고
HTML hex
고
CSS content
content: "\ACE0";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%B3%A0
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.