What 뱉 means
The accompanying object sets the verb’s reading. In Korean, 침을 뱉다 means spit out saliva; 돈을 뱉다 means give money back; 말을 뱉다 or 욕을 뱉다 means blurt words or insults carelessly. 뱉어 is a conjugated form of the same verb.
As a single syllable, 뱉 usually looks like a fragment from a longer word. The surrounding text may show whether it was intentional.
Where did 뱉 come from?
It developed through changing Korean spellings of the same verb. The verb is recorded as 밭다 in 1459 and 비왇다 in 1461.
Other historical forms include 받다, 밧다, 비왓다, 비얏다, 비앗다, 배앗다, and 뱃다. These are earlier spellings, not forms to substitute for modern 뱉다.
A 2022 National Institute of Korean Language survey documents regional and generational variants: 밭다 in parts of Gyeongsang, and 배트다, 바트다, or 바끄다 in Jeolla and Jeju.
Physical and blunt; figurative uses can sound accusatory when the object is money, words, or an insult.
A lone 뱉 gives too little to label as rude; look for the full word or ask.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsDon't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1What does it mean if someone sends only 뱉?
There is too little context to infer a reaction or tone. It may be a fragment; ask which full word or sentence was intended.
How to type 뱉
뱉\BC49Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.