What 곫 means
It adds a syllable to Korean spelling, not a clear message. In a word, its meaning comes from the syllables around it; alone, this block gives no reliable cue about the sender’s reaction or tone.
Hangul was devised in 1443. The Hunminjeongeum, a guide to Hangul published in 1446, explains the script’s purpose and how its letters combine. Hangul later became the standard script for Korean; that is the history of the writing system, not a separate meaning for this block.
How is 곫 built?
It combines an initial consonant, a vowel, and a final cluster. Unicode decomposes it as ᄀ ᅩ ᆲ. These are conjoining jamo—Hangul letters encoded to join into syllable blocks. Their familiar compatibility forms are ㄱ, ㅗ, and ㄼ; the final cluster ㄼ combines ㄹ and ㅂ.
As of September 13, 2026, apps and fonts still differed in their support for shaping separate conjoining jamo. A split display can mean the text contains separate parts rather than one precomposed block. NFC normalization can recombine a canonically equivalent sequence when a precomposed form exists.
Alone, 곫 reads as unexplained Korean text; it does not establish a reaction or tone.
If it arrives by itself, ask what word or passage it belongs to before reading a tone into it.
Who writes 곫
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
2Why does 곫 look wrong?
It may be separate jamo rather than a missing glyph. If the text contains a canonically equivalent Hangul sequence, NFC normalization can recombine it into the precomposed block when one exists.
Is “golb” a Korean word?
No. “golb” is Unicode’s Latin label for this Hangul syllable, not a translation or a dependable guide to its pronunciation in a Korean word.
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How to type or find 곫
- Search it as
- 곫 meaning · golb · Hangul jamo · 겹받침 · Korean IME · Korean keyboard · NFC Hangul · final consonant cluster
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
곫\ACEBCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.