What 겪 means
It usually signals “go through” inside a Korean word.
The clearest home is 겪다, with forms such as 겪어 and 겪은. Dictionary examples pair it with hardship, pain, conflict, change, and hard processes; a lone 겪 is context-dependent, not a complete message.
Why does 겪 look like a square?
Because Hangul packs letters into syllable blocks.
Hangul, the Korean alphabet, was developed in 1443 and published in 1446 to write spoken Korean more accessibly. No defensible first-attestation date for 겪 alone surfaced as of 2026. Copy it from the palette above when you need this exact block.
Neutral Korean spelling; a lone 겪 is not a reaction symbol.
Do not send 겪 alone to mean “I suffered.”
Part of the collection
Who writes 겪
Loading…
Questions people ask
1Why does 겪 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
More like this
12
How to type or find 겪
- Search it as
- 겪다 · 겪어 · 겪은 · gyeogg · korean syllable 겪 · undergo in Korean · experience suffer
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
겪\ACAACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.