What 앬 means
Read it as one syllable within a Korean word.
Hangul stacks an initial, a vowel, and sometimes a final consonant in one block. In 앬, ㅇ is silent, ㅐ is the vowel, and ㄽ is a two-consonant final called a 겹받침; its sound depends on what follows.
Hangul was devised in 1443; the 1446 guide 훈민정음 explained the script. It made Korean easier to learn when writing relied on Chinese-character systems. 앬 is assembled from Hangul parts.
Neutral in Korean text; opaque as an isolated syllable.
Don't confuse it with
2Questions people ask
1Why does 앬 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.
How to type 앬
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType C56C, then Alt+X to get 앬.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable aels”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType c56c, then Enter or Space.
HTML
앬CSS
\C56CKorean 2-set (두벌식) keyboard
Type ㅇ, ㅐ, ㄹ, ㅅ in order; the Korean input method composes them as 앬.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
앬
HTML hex
앬
CSS content
content: "\C56C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%95%AC
1
On screen
1
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.