What ᅿ means
It is one archaic vowel jamo, made from two components. The label o-eo names ᅩ ᅥ; a medial vowel joins consonant jamo inside a Hangul syllable block.
Hangul was devised in 1443 for Korean speech; its guide, Hunminjeongeum, was completed in 1446. A cited example, ᄋᅿᆯ마나, appears on folio 5b—the reverse of leaf 5—of the manuscript Yeombulbogwonmun. Later changes in Korean vowel harmony—the way vowels pattern within words—pushed such spellings out of ordinary use. In 2019, a study proposed ᅿ as a written sign for an English vowel sound, [ɔ].
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Questions people ask
1Why does ᅿ show as a box?
Usually a font issue: it lacks archaic Hangul glyph coverage or shaping support.
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How to type or find ᅿ
- Search it as
- hangul jungseong o-eo symbol · hangul jungseong o-eo copy paste
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
ᅿCSS
\117FHow to type ᅿ
Use a dedicated Old Hangul IME; enter ᅩ, then ᅥ.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ᅿ
HTML hex
ᅿ
CSS content
content: "\117F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E1%85%BF
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On screen
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Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.