Hangul syllable 굨

It spells one Korean syllable; its word supplies the context.

It combines initial ㄱ, vowel ㅛ and final consonant ㅋ. These component letters are called jamo; they join into one syllable block. Their order shows how the syllable is spelled, not the meaning of a larger word.

Hangul's earliest official record dates to 1443. The 1446 guide Hunminjeongeum explains that Hangul was made to write Korean speech with reusable letters and describes how initial, vowel and final parts form a block. 굨 follows that general spelling system. A scholarly comparison discusses Hangul's block design alongside Phags-pa, another script that arranges writing in blocks; the comparison concerns script design, not the origin of this individual syllable.

Why does 굨 look different in fonts?

A font changes the drawing, not the text character.

Unicode encodes 굨 as one precomposed syllable and also decomposes it into the conjoining jamo ᄀ + ᅭ + ᆿ: initial ㄱ, vowel ㅛ and final ㅋ. Korean-capable fonts draw those parts as one block, and typefaces can shape the strokes differently.

A blank box means the chosen font cannot display 굨; the text character is unchanged. For the difference between 굨 and 굧, compare the final consonant: 굨 ends in ㅋ, while 굧 ends in ㅊ.