Hangul syllable Gweonh

It is one Hangul syllable, usually part of a word.

The block combines initial ㄱ, vowel ㅝ, and final ㄶ, a pair of consonants: ㄴ and ㅎ. Both belong to the same final cluster; 궎 does not end in a lone ㅎ. The surrounding Korean word provides its lexical meaning.

Hangul was designed in the 15th century to make writing Korean easier because Chinese writing did not map neatly onto Korean speech. The Hunminjeongeum is first recorded in 1443, and its explanatory book appeared in 1446. At first, Hangul faced resistance and had limited official use, even as women and commoners used it in everyday writing; during Japanese rule, activists also tied the script to Korean national identity. Hangul’s design drew on Chinese scholarship about speech sounds and study of the Mongolian Phags-pa script. 궎 is one combination of Hangul’s letters, called jamo, not a separately invented sign.

How do I type 궎?

Enter the syllable’s jamo in order on a Korean 2-set keyboard.

On a standard Korean 2-set layout, enter ㄱ, ㅜ, ㅓ, ㄴ, ㅎ in order; the input method combines them into 궎. The Unicode decomposition is ᄀ + ᅯ + ᆭ. Some text tools leave conjoining jamo as separate characters, so use input or normalization that composes Hangul syllables.