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쾿

hangul syllable koec

Hangul Syllable Koec

쾿 is one Hangul syllable block whose role comes from the Korean word around it. It can be typed from its component letters or stored as separate Hangul letters that still render like one syllable.

Text symbol
Search it as
KOEC · Hangul syllable · Korean jamo · Korean input · decomposed Hangul
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 쾿 means

Its parts are initial ㅋ, vowel ㅚ, and final ㅊ.

KOEC is the Unicode name assembled from the short labels for these Hangul jamo (letters); it describes the written structure, not a translation.

Hangul developed under King Sejong in 1443 and was introduced in 1446 in the book Hunminjeongeum (“Correct Sounds to Instruct the People”), also an early name for the script. Before Hangul, Korean was written with Chinese characters and adaptations such as idu, which used those characters to represent Korean. Hangul offered a writing system designed for Korean speech; its letters are grouped into syllable blocks.

How do you type 쾿?

In Korean input mode, enter ㅋ, then ㅚ, then final ㅊ.

Unicode can store the same syllable as three joining Hangul letters, 쾿, or as the single block 쾿. NFC (the composed form) combines those letters; NFD (the decomposed form) keeps them separate. Both should render alike, but raw text matching can distinguish them until software normalizes.

What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings
Sent alone
It presents the exact syllable; nearby Korean text shows how it fits into a word.
Inside a Korean word
It supplies one syllable; read the word around it for meaning.
Ending shown as a separate letter
The final part is stored separately, but the text can still represent the same syllable.

Don't confuse it with

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쾿
The decomposed form 쾿 is a Hangul syllable plus its separate final letter. It can render like 쾿; Unicode NFC can combine it into one block.

Questions people ask

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Why does 쾿 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.

How to type 쾿

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType CFBF, then Alt+X to get 쾿.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable koec”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType cfbf, then Enter or Space.
HTML
쾿
CSS
\CFBF
Korean IME
In Korean input mode, enter initial ㅋ, vowel ㅚ, and final ㅊ in that order.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
쾿
HTML hex
쾿
CSS content
content: "\CFBF";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%BE%BF
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

2

Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols