Hangul syllable Guk

Select Korean 2-set input (Dubeolsik), then press r, n, and z.

On QWERTY, the input method combines those keystrokes into one block. Typing the romanization guk on an English keyboard leaves Latin letters. Unicode also represents the syllable as a precomposed block or an equivalent three-jamo sequence (jamo are Hangul's individual letters); fonts can place the parts differently without changing the text.

What does 궄 mean?

It is a Hangul syllable, not a standalone reaction.

궄 combines initial ㄱ, vowel ㅜ, and final consonant ㅋ, called batchim in Korean. Its reading is romanized as guk: the vowel is close to the “oo” in “food,” and the final k closes without a vowel after it. At a syllable's end, ㅋ and ㄱ both close with a clipped k, so 궄 and 국 can sound alike despite their different spellings.

As of 2026, 궄 has no established standalone reaction meaning. Read it as a Korean syllable in a word, or use the surrounding message to work out why it was sent.

궄 belongs to Hangul's writing history

Before Hangul, Korean writing relied on Chinese characters. The new script was designed because Korean speech differed from Chinese; the earliest record of its design is a 1443 entry in the Annals of King Sejong, a chronicle of the Korean ruler's reign. Hunminjeongeum, the book explaining the script's purpose and design, was published in 1446.

After 1894, Korean names for the script such as 국문 or 국서 became common. The name 한글 appears from the 1910s and had spread as its public name by 1928.