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구

hangul syllable gu

Hangul syllable gu

구 is a Korean Hangul syllable, but it has no fixed translation on its own. In different Korean words, it can carry roots meaning “nine,” “district,” or “old/former.”

Text symbol
Also called
gu
Search it as
Korean 구 meaning · nine in Korean · type 구
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 구 means

Translate 구 in the context of the whole Korean word. Hanja (Chinese characters used in Korean) link it to separate roots: 九, “nine”; 區, “district”; and 舊, “old/former.” In 구간 (“old edition”), 구 carries the last root.

The first written record of Hangul’s creation is from 1443. King Sejong made it to help people who found Chinese characters difficult write Korean; the explanatory book Hunminjeongeum appeared in 1446.

When software standardizes text (Unicode normalization), it can decompose 구 into two Korean letters, ᄀ and ᅮ; together, they still form one syllable.

Questions people ask

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Why does 구 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 구

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType AD6C, then Alt+X to get 구.
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 gu”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType ad6c, then Enter or Space.
HTML
구
CSS
\AD6C
How to type 구 on a Korean keyboard
On the standard Korean 2-set layout, press the keys marked ㄱ, then ㅜ; on QWERTY, press R, then N.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
구
HTML hex
구
CSS content
content: "\AD6C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%B5%AC
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.

Families this belongs to

2

Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

ᄀᄁᄂᄃᄄᄅᄆᄇᄈᄉᄊᄋ

Korean syllables11,623 symbols

ᄀᄁᄂᄃᄄᄅᄆᄇᄈᄉᄊᄋ