Hangul Syllable Kyut

It has no fixed word meaning by itself.

큩 is a Hangul syllable block. Unicode’s label “kyut” describes its letter pattern, not a Korean translation. The Korean spelling around it, such as a longer word or a name, determines what it says.

Hangul was devised during Korea’s Joseon dynasty to write Korean systematically. Its creation and the explanatory book Hunminjeongeum are dated to 1443 and 1446. Those dates mark the writing system’s history, not the origin of 큩 as a word.

Is 큩 a real Korean syllable?

Yes, it is a valid block, but not necessarily a word.

Hangul letters, called jamo, combine as an initial consonant, a vowel, and an optional final consonant. In 큩, those parts are ㅋ, ㅠ, and ㅌ, respectively.

A permitted combination is not automatically a common Korean word; its meaning comes from the surrounding spelling.

Why does 큩 look wrong?

Usually, the font or text path lacks coverage for this block.

As of 2026-09-13, some limited legacy Korean fonts and encodings may lack less-common precomposed syllables such as 큩. A missing box or fallback glyph points to a display-coverage problem, not a different character.

Unicode can store the same syllable as one block, 큩, or as three joining Hangul letters, 큩. Text normalization can convert between these forms without changing the text.