What 巪 means
巪 is a Korean-made Hanja character for the sound 걱.
Hanja are Chinese characters used in Korean; Hangul is the Korean alphabet, and ㄱ is one of its consonants. Here, 巨 contributes the Korean syllable 거 and ㄱ marks a final consonant, so 巪 writes a sound rather than an everyday standalone word.
The name 임꺽정 appears in the Hanja spelling 林巪正, with 巪 in the sound-bearing middle part.
Why does the name 임꺽정 have several Hanja spellings?
The spellings use different Hanja choices for the Korean name.
林巪正 uses 巪 for the sound-bearing middle part; 林巨正 is an established alternate spelling used for the historical novel. The Joseon Annals record 林巨叱正 in 1560–1561, using 叱 in a different Korean sound-based spelling. A royal record from 1795 has 周巪 for 주걱 (“spatula”), and construction records preserve 加乃巪金 for 가래꺽쇠. These examples show 巪 in Korean sound spellings; the 1560–1561 form uses 叱, not 巪.
A rare documentary character used to spell Korean sounds within Hanja-based names and words.
A Chinese-language dictionary reading is not the Korean sound used in these spellings.
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1Why does 巪 show as a box?
A box means the app’s font lacks a glyph for 巪. A font with coverage can display the same text as this character.
How to type 巪
巪\5DEACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.