Hangul syllable Magg

It spells one Korean syllable; its word supplies the meaning. Unpack it as ᄆ + ᅡ + ᆩ: an initial consonant, the vowel ㅏ, and a final ㄲ. At the end of an isolated syllable, ㄲ sounds like a short k cut off without a burst, so a rough pronunciation is “mak.” The Unicode label “Magg” names this letter combination; it is not a Korean translation.

Hangul was devised under King Sejong. A court record says 28 new letters were created in 1443; a 1446 record reports the completion of 훈민정음 (Hunminjeongeum), a book explaining those letters and how they combine. The alphabet was meant to make writing Korean easier: Chinese characters did not fit Korean speech neatly.

Hangul syllables are built by arranging jamo—consonant and vowel letters—inside a square block. Chinese characters also have a history in Korean writing, but they are a separate tradition, not components of 맊. Different fonts can shape the block’s strokes differently without changing the character.