Hangul syllable 곚

곚 contributes a syllable; the Korean word around it supplies the meaning. In Hangul, the block combines initial consonant ㄱ, vowel ㅖ, and final consonant ㅈ. A valid block need not be a stand-alone dictionary word. On the standard Korean two-set keyboard, r, Shift+P, w enters it.

Hangul was designed in 1443 and explained in the Hunminjeongeum, a guide published in 1446. It aimed to make written Korean easier to learn when formal literacy relied heavily on Chinese characters. The guide shows how consonants and vowels form syllable blocks. Unicode’s systematic Hangul repertoire includes combinations not attested as historical Korean syllables.

Hangul’s status changed over time: once treated as a lower-status script, it later became central to Korean-language identity and reform. This history belongs to the script, not a special meaning for 곚. Some scholars propose Phags-pa as an influence on Hangul’s design; that does not make this syllable a descendant of a Phags-pa sign.

What if someone sends 곚 alone?

On its own, 곚 does not identify what the sender means. As of 2026, no reliable standalone Korean word or conventional chat reading is established for this exact block. It may be a test character, typo, or fragment; ask for the surrounding sentence before assigning it a meaning.

How do I type this Hangul block?

On the standard Korean two-set keyboard, type r, Shift+P, then w. With Dubeolsik, a Korean IME maps those QWERTY positions to ㄱ, ㅖ, and ㅈ, then composes 곚. The letters are key positions, not text to enter in an English field.

Unicode also defines a canonically equivalent sequence of joining jamo, special Hangul letters that combine into a block. NFC is the Unicode normalization form that composes such sequences where possible. Fonts and text layout can change how the parts appear. The visually similar string ㄱㅖㅈ uses separate forms, not that equivalent sequence.