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쿁

hangul syllable koet

Hangul syllable koet

By itself, 쿁 represents a Korean syllable sound, not a complete idea. It is one Hangul block built from three Jamo (letters): the initial consonant ᄏ, the vowel ᅬ, and the final consonant ᇀ.

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쿁 · koet · Korean syllable block · Hangul Jamo · Hangul letters
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 쿁 means

Hangul arranges the consonant and vowel of a Korean syllable together in a compact block, with a final consonant when present. That layout lets each written block stand for one syllable within a word.

Hangul took shape in King Sejong’s court

King Sejong’s court developed Hangul to make Korean easier to write than it was with Chinese characters. The alphabet was created in 1443; Hunminjeongeum, the guide explaining the system, appeared in 1446.

In Korean texts from before 1933, Jamo can appear in sequences rather than in composed syllable blocks.

Questions people ask

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Why does 쿁 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 쿁

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType CFC1, then Alt+X to get 쿁.
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 koet”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType cfc1, then Enter or Space.
HTML
쿁
CSS
\CFC1
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
쿁
HTML hex
쿁
CSS content
content: "\CFC1";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%BF%81
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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

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Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols