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쿖

hangul syllable kyobs

Hangul syllable kyobs

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As of 2026, 쿖 has no established standalone meaning as a Korean word or message; it is a composed Hangul syllable block. A Korean input method builds it by entering ㅋ, ㅛ, ㅂ, then ㅅ, with the last two combining as final ㅄ. The history here is Hangul’s block-building system, not a hidden meaning for this one syllable.

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What 쿖 means

Read it as a syllable, not a reaction. 쿖 is a Hangul block built from Korean consonant and vowel letters. If someone sends it alone, ask what they mean before assigning it a mood.

Hangul was created in 1443 and explained in the 1446 text Hunminjeongeum, a guide to the writing system. The Academy of Korean Studies lists Yongbieocheonga, a long Korean poem from 1447, as the earliest use it names. Hangul was designed to represent Korean speech directly and make reading easier; those milestones date the writing system, not 쿖 itself.

Hangul’s history is not this block’s origin

From 1447 onward, Hangul appears in translations, practical manuals, primers, and literature. That shows the script in use across different kinds of writing; it does not establish a meaning history for 쿖.

The closest historical comparison is Phags-pa, a square phonetic script commissioned in 1265 and proclaimed in 1269. Korean scholarship discusses it as a possible design reference for Hunminjeongeum; that debated link concerns script design, not evidence that 쿖 descends from Phags-pa.

As a standalone message, it has no settled reading; in Korean text, it is a composed syllable block.

A lone 쿖 does not supply a mood; read the surrounding message.

Who writes 쿖

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Don't confuse it with

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Questions people ask

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Why does 쿖 sometimes appear as separate letters?

It can look split when an input method leaves Hangul’s component letters, called jamo, uncombined or a font shows an equivalent decomposed sequence separately. That display alone does not mean the syllable changed.

How to type or find 쿖

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meaning of 쿖 · 쿖 Korean word · Hangul block · syllable block · jamo · ㅄ · Dubeolsik keyboard · Korean keyboard
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType CFD6, then AltX to get 쿖.
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 kyobs”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType cfd6, then Enter or Space.
HTML
쿖
CSS
\CFD6
Korean IME
Type ㅋ, ㅛ, ㅂ, ㅅ in order; the final ㅂ ㅅ combines into ㅄ.
2-set QWERTY
On standard Dubeolsik, use z-y-q-t with Korean input enabled.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
쿖
HTML hex
쿖
CSS content
content: "\CFD6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%BF%96
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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

2

Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols