What 乥 means
乥 is a Korean gugyeol sign read as 홀.
Gugyeol added marks to older formal Chinese texts so they could be read in Korean. Early forms could reorder Chinese words; later forms kept Chinese order and added Korean endings. Idu and hyangchal also used Chinese characters to write Korean.
Gugyeol appears to have developed in the seventh century for Buddhist study. An early surviving example is an annotated Buddhist scripture from the Korean Hwaeom tradition, dated to the ninth- or tenth-century. Japanese kunten reading marks for Chinese texts developed under gugyeol's influence.
Historical and specialist; clearest in the Korean gugyeol context.
Who writes 乥
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Questions people ask
1Why does 乥 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 乥
- Also called
- gugyeol · kwukyel
- Search it as
- Korean gugyeol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
乥\4E65Codes and encoding1 code points
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