걔

Etymology
Contraction of. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1)  that kid; he or she

Usage notes
In colloquial Korean, 걔 (along with deictic variants, ) is the word that most closely resembles the English third-person pronoun. Despite the etymology, it can be used for all human referents with the restrictions given below, and is value-neutral.

Like, the use of 걔 implies that the person being referred to by the pronoun is of equal or lower social rank compared to the speaker. When referring to a social superior, speakers use either a title, a word referring to the relationship between the speaker and the addressee, or circumlocutional phrases like. Thus a college student may use the pronoun 걔 to refer to a classmate, but their professor must be referred to as.

The use of 걔 in socially impermissible contexts, such as when referring to a superior, should be understood as the speaker showing contempt for the referent.