Hangul syllable Gying

With the standard 2-beolsik layout, type r-m-l-d.

With Korean input active, those keys enter four Hangul letters called jamo: ㄱ, ㅡ, ㅣ, and ㅇ. The input method combines ㅡ and ㅣ as ㅢ, then arranges the jamo as 긩. On phones and other layouts, the key sequence differs; use the Korean jamo keyboard or character picker.

What does 긩 mean in Korean?

Its word-level reading comes from the surrounding Korean text. No standalone Korean word meaning for 긩 is established as of 2026-09-13.

Hangul was designed to write Korean speech with letters arranged into syllable blocks. The first surviving record of its creation is in the court chronicle Sejong Sillok, dated to the twelfth lunar month of 1443. A 1446 explanatory book, Hunminjeongeum Haeryebon, describes the writing system and a syllable’s initial, middle, and final parts. The name Hangul appears in records from the early 1910s, though its exact starting point is disputed.

Why is 긩 written as one block?

It combines a starting consonant, a vowel, and an ending consonant. The Hangul jamo decomposition of 긩 is ᄀ + ᅴ + ᆼ. Here, jamo means the individual Hangul letters used to build a syllable; this sequence encodes the same sound unit as the single block 긩.

The Unicode 18.0 standard notes that fonts may vary the components’ exact shape, size, and placement. Some older Hangul syllables can be written as jamo sequences without a single precomposed block.