What 빵 means
Context decides the reading. As a noun, 빵 names bread or bakery food; as a sound-word, it imitates a sudden pop, hard kick, or horn. The bread sense traveled Portuguese pão Japanese パン Korean 빵. The character itself is one Hangul syllable block built from jamo, not a food picture.
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Who writes 빵
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsI want bread or bakery food.
Combination ideas
3Burst out laughing.
A score of zero.
A bakery.
Questions people ask
1Why does 빵 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 빵
- Also called
- ppang · bbang
- Search it as
- bread · bang · 빵점 · 빵터지다 · 빵집 · 빵빵
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
빵CSS
\BE752-set Korean keyboard
Switch to Korean and press ShiftQ, K, D: ㅃ ㅏ ㅇ assembles into 빵.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
빵
HTML hex
빵
CSS content
content: "\BE75";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%B9%B5
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.