What 반 means
The surrounding word decides which meaning you are reading. 반반 means “half-and-half,” 반장 is a class leader, and 반대 means opposition or the opposite. The roots are 半 (“half”), 班 (“class/group”), and 反 (“opposition”).
Hangul was created under King Sejong in 1443 to make Korean easier to write; the explanatory work Hunminjeongeum appeared in 1446. Those dates mark the script’s history, not the first use of 반.
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Who writes 반
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Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Half-and-half.
Class or group leader.
Opposition; against or the opposite.
Questions people ask
1Why does 반 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.
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How to type or find 반
- Also called
- ban
- Search it as
- Korean half · 반반 · 반장 · 반대
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
반CSS
\BC18How do I type 반 on a Korean keyboard?
With a two-set Korean IME (software keyboard) active, enter ㅂ, then ㅏ, then ㄴ; it composes 반.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
반
HTML hex
반
CSS content
content: "\BC18";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%B0%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.