What 귞 means
It is a Korean syllable block, not a reaction symbol. The block is made from three jamo (Korean letter components): ᄀ ᅲ ᆩ. They correspond to the initial ㄱ, vowel ㅠ, and final ㄲ. “Gyugg” is a generated label for this structure, not a translation. Read the syllable in its Korean word context; the block itself is not a picture or reaction.
Hangul was created for Korean speech during Joseon, a historical Korean kingdom. Chinese characters, called Hanja in Korean, were used for writing but did not represent Korean sounds as directly. The first historical notice of Hunminjeongeum is dated 1443; its explanatory book was published in 1446. The same script is generally called Hangul in South Korea and Choseongul in North Korea. Its letters and shapes changed over time, and some older letters fell out of use. Hanja is part of Hangul’s historical setting, not a component of this block.
Unicode stores modern Hangul syllables as ready-made blocks and can also represent jamo sequences for older Korean. The exact layout varies by font: a font chooses the components’ placement, shape, and size.
Inside Korean text, it contributes a syllable; alone, it does not signal a mood, joke, or politeness cue.
Sent alone, it gives the reader no clear message to decode.
Who writes 귞
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Worth knowing
- “Gyugg” is a generated label built from the block’s component names. It describes the structure, not a Korean or English translation.
Questions people ask
2Is 귞 an emoji?
No. It is a Hangul text character that represents a Korean syllable, not an emoji.
Why does 귞 split into jamo?
Unicode’s NFD form separates a precomposed Hangul block into its conjoining jamo. NFC can compose that same sequence back into one block when the app supports Hangul normalization.
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How to type or find 귞
- Search it as
- gyugg · gyu · ssangkiyeok · jamo · hangul · Korean syllable · Korean IME · NFC
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
귞\ADDECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.