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았

hangul syllable ass

Hangul Syllable Ass

았 is a Korean syllable block inside -았-, usually marking a past or completed situation. In a full phrase it can signal a settled result; alone, it is not an emoji reaction. Hangul made Korean writing more accessible, and 았 is a grammatical block within it.

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았 · -았- · at · past · perfective · completed · grammar · korean
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 았 means

It marks a past or completed predicate. In -았-, it can also frame a future outcome as settled; translate the whole Korean word, not 았 alone.

Hangul was created in 1443 and explained in 1446 to make Korean easier to write than Chinese-character-based systems. The historical sources date the script, not this individual block.

Research traces Korean anterior -ess- to a perfect construction around the seventeenth century, helping explain why modern -았/었- is not only a simple-past label. As of 2026, the reviewed sources support no independent cross-cultural or ritual reading here.

Don't confuse it with

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앗
Hangul Syllable As
앗 is “oops” or “yikes”; 았 is the grammatical block in -았-.

Combination ideas

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“Got it” or “okay”; a complete conversational phrase, not a bare fragment.

Questions people ask

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Why does 았 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 았

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType C558, then Alt+X to get 았.
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 ass”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType c558, then Enter or Space.
HTML
았
CSS
\C558
Korean 2-set input
Switch to Korean input; type ㅇ, ㅏ, then ㅆ. The IME composes them into 았; separate jamo means composition did not finish.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
았
HTML hex
았
CSS content
content: "\C558";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%95%98
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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.

Families this belongs to

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Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

ᄀᄁᄂᄃᄄᄅᄆᄇᄈᄉᄊᄋ

Korean syllables11,623 symbols

ᄀᄁᄂᄃᄄᄅᄆᄇᄈᄉᄊᄋ