What 퀯 means
A bare 퀯 gives a syllable, not a reliable translation.
Within a Korean word, it spells one syllable; the word supplies the translation. By itself, the block does not tell you which word was intended.
Hangul was devised in the 15th century so Korean speech could be written with learnable letters grouped into syllable blocks. Its design was completed in 1443; the explanatory Hunminjeongeum manuscript was published in 1446. Modern spelling was based on a 1933 proposal and partly revised in 1988.
Why does 퀯 look different in different fonts?
Fonts can shift Hangul's parts without changing the syllable.
Hangul arranges an initial consonant, a vowel, and, when present, a final consonant into a compact block. In 퀯 these are ㅋ, ㅞ, and ㅊ.
A Korean input method can form 퀯 from the keys for ㅋ, ㅜ, ㅔ, and ㅊ. Unicode's equivalent decomposed spelling is 퀯, a sequence of linked Hangul letters; fonts can vary their shape, size, and placement.
A neutral Hangul syllable; the word and sentence carry the tone.
Don't treat a lone 퀯 as a complete translation; read the Korean word around it.
Who writes 퀯
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsIt spells one syllable; the whole word supplies the translation.
Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why is ㅋㅜㅔㅊ still separate in my text?
Because ㅋㅜㅔㅊ uses standalone-form Hangul letters. NFC, Unicode's text-normalization form, composes the linked sequence 퀯 into 퀯 but does not convert that standalone-form sequence.
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How to type or find 퀯
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- kwec · Korean character · Korean syllable · Hangul block · Hangul syllable block · Korean typing · Hangul input · jamo
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
퀯\D02FCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.