What 귑 means
It has no established standalone meaning; it is a syllable inside Korean words.
In a Korean word, 귑 contributes one syllable; the full word supplies its meaning. As of 2026, no special convention for sending 귑 by itself is established, so ask the sender what they intended.
How did Hangul's syllable blocks begin?
Hangul was designed to write Korean speech with letters.
A 1443 entry in the Sejong Sillok, a Korean royal chronicle, records the announcement of 28 letters. Hunminjeongeum, a guide to Hangul's design and syllable structure, was published in 1446. Hangul took shape in a Korean writing culture that used Chinese characters; its letters represent speech sounds arranged into syllable blocks.
How is 귑 made from Hangul letters?
A Korean input method joins its letters in initial–vowel–final order.
Hangul's component letters are called jamo. Unicode's canonical decomposition of 귑 is 귑; normalization can compose those three jamo into the syllable block. If software exposes the parts, it is showing the same syllable in decomposed form.
Neutral as a written syllable; the Korean word around it supplies the meaning.
If someone sends 귑 alone, ask what they intended before assigning it a meaning.
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Who writes 귑
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 귑 split into three parts?
That is its canonical decomposition, not a different syllable. Unicode can represent the Hangul letters ᄀ, ᅱ and ᆸ separately; normalization can compose them as 귑.
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귑\ADD1귑.귑; normalization can compose it into 귑.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.