What 켻 means
It is one syllable block; its role comes from the surrounding spelling.
Read 켻 with neighboring blocks when it appears in a Korean word. If someone sends it alone, ask which word or source they meant.
Hangeul, the Korean writing system, was designed to combine consonant and vowel letters into syllable blocks. The 1933 unified-spelling proposal helped shape the current Korean spelling system; that is script history, not a creation date for 켻.
How do I type 켻?
In a Korean IME, compose initial ㅋ, vowel ㅖ, then final ㄳ.
A Korean syllable block combines letter components called jamo: 켻 has initial ᄏ, vowel ᅨ, and final cluster ᆪ. In a Korean IME, enter the initial, vowel, then final consonants; the exact keystrokes depend on your layout.
If you enter ㅋㅖㄳ as characters, they may stay separate: these are compatibility jamo, standalone letter forms that do not combine by themselves. The structurally decomposed sequence 켻 instead uses conjoining jamo. As of 2026, whether it displays as one block or separate parts depends on font and text-layout support.
Neutral as a text character; its tone comes from the Korean message around it.
Do not read “kyegs” as a Korean word; it is a technical label for this block.
Who writes 켻
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsAsk which Korean word or source was meant; the surrounding spelling is missing.
Don't confuse it with
2ㅋㅖㄳ These compatibility jamo can remain separate; they are not the same stored form as 켻.
켻 This is the conjoining-jamo decomposition of 켻, not a separate precomposed syllable.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why did ㅋㅖㄳ stay as separate letters?
They stay separate because they are compatibility jamo, which do not join automatically. A Korean IME can compose the corresponding components into one syllable block.
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How to type or find 켻
- Search it as
- Hangul syllable · Korean syllable block · Hangul jamo · Korean IME · precomposed Hangul · conjoining jamo · Hangul input · rare Hangul syllable
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
켻\CF3BCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.