What 컢 means
Use a Korean IME: enter ㅋ, then ㅒ, then ㅍ.
The Korean IME combines these Hangul letters into one precomposed syllable block. NFC, a Unicode normalization form, combines the separate modern letters into that block; some software still handles the two forms differently.
Fonts can vary the letters’ placement, shape, and size inside a Hangul block. A changed silhouette is a font difference; 컢 remains the same character.
What does 컢 mean?
It is a Hangul syllable; the surrounding word supplies its meaning.
Hangul’s earliest official record dates to December 1443; Hunminjeongeum, a guide explaining the new letters, was completed in 1446. Hangul gave Korean its own alphabet alongside Hanja (Chinese characters) and earlier methods such as Idu, Gugyeol, and Hyangchal, which used Chinese characters to write Korean. It spread through religious, practical, home, and official writing, and became Korea’s official script in 1894. Those milestones describe Hangul’s history, not a separate origin story for this block.
Read it as neutral written Hangul; the surrounding Korean word supplies its role.
A lone 컢 does not tell you the sender’s whole word; ask what it belongs to.
Who writes 컢
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsOne syllable in a Korean word; the surrounding letters show which word it belongs to.
Questions people ask
1Why does 컢 look different in another font?
The character is the same. Fonts can choose different placement, shape, and size for its component letters, changing the silhouette.
How to type or find 컢
- Search it as
- hangul block · korean syllable · hangul character · korean typing · korean ime · hangul jamo · hangul font · type 컢
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
컢\CEE2Why is 컢 a box on my screen?
fsymbols draws rare signs with its own fonts, so they show here even where your device has none. An app or website without such a font shows an empty box (□) or a question mark instead. Turn our fonts off to see each sign as your device draws it by itself: a box here means a box in your chats and documents too.
Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

