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궘

hangul syllable gweom

Hangul syllable gweom

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궘 is the Hangul syllable romanized as gweom, roughly “kwuhm” (with “uh” as in a hesitation sound); by itself it gives a sound, not a word meaning, so a lone message needs context. It is built from a leading consonant, a vowel, and a final consonant; Hangul can show the same parts as one block or as separate jamo.

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What 궘 means

It is a syllable block, not a word definition.

궘 is romanized as gweom and sounds roughly like “kwuhm”: begin with a k-like sound, move into a short “uh”-like vowel, and end with m. Its jamo—the component letters used to build Hangul syllables—are ㄱ (initial consonant), ㅝ (vowel), and ㅁ (final consonant). In a Korean word, surrounding syllables supply the meaning.

Before Hangul, Korean writers adapted Chinese characters to write Korean. King Sejong created Hangul in 1443 because Korean and Chinese differed and Chinese-character writing was hard to use for Korean. The script was first called Hunminjeongeum; a 1446 book with the same name explained its principles. 궘 is one regular combination of Hangul letters, not a separately invented sign.

Why does 궘 look different in different fonts?

The pieces may be drawn differently or stored separately.

Unicode represents 궘 as one syllable block or as the equivalent conjoining jamo ᄀ ᅯ ᆷ. A Korean input method may compose those jamo; normalization can also turn the equivalent sequence into one block.

Fonts can change the components’ size, placement, and shape inside the syllable cell. A visual difference alone does not mean the text contains a different syllable.

Neutral as a Korean syllable; alone, it does not signal a dependable conversational tone.

A lone 궘 is not a dependable reaction; ask what word the sender meant.

Who writes 궘

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What it means when someone sends it to you

2 readings

One syllable in that word; neighboring syllables identify the word and its meaning.

How to type or find 궘

Also called
gweom
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Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType AD98, then AltX to get 궘.
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 gweom”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType ad98, then Enter or Space.
HTML
궘
CSS
\AD98
How do I type 궘?
In a Korean input method, enter ㄱ, then ㅝ, then ㅁ; it composes them as one syllable block.
Separate conjoining jamo
A Unicode-aware tool can compose ᄀ ᅯ ᆷ into 궘 with NFC normalization.
Why is 궘 a box on my screen?

fsymbols draws rare signs with its own fonts, so they show here even where your device has none. An app or website without such a font shows an empty box (□) or a question mark instead. Turn our fonts off to see each sign as your device draws it by itself: a box here means a box in your chats and documents too.

Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
궘
HTML hex
궘
CSS content
content: "\AD98";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%B6%98
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

Korean syllables11,623 symbols