What 콸 means
It imitates liquid rushing out. 콸 is Korean sound-symbolic vocabulary for a gush. The earliest evidence located here is a late Joseon 유산가 passage using 콸콸 for a waterfall, not a single inventor.
Hangul was created in 1443 for accessible Korean writing, so 콸 has no separate emblem origin. In 2020, a literature paper records tears using the same flow image: 눈물 콸콸 흘리고. A 2011 analysis treats 퀄 as a vowel-harmonic counterpart.
Casual sound effect. A box means missing font support.
Someone sent me 콸? Read it as a clipped gush; expect 콸콸 for full flow.
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Who writes 콸
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Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
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1Why does 콸 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.
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How to type or find 콸
- Search it as
- kwal · k'wal · 콸콸 · gush · glug · pouring · 콸라룸푸르 · 괄
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
콸\CF78Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.