What 뻘 means
It means coastal mud in regional Korean. In southern Korean dialects, it names 개흙, dark mud on a shore or marsh. For neutral or formal writing, 갯벌, 개펄, 펄, or 개흙 is safer; 뻘 sounds regional.
Hangul forms syllable blocks by arranging consonant and vowel letters: 뻘 contains ㅃ, ㅓ, and the final consonant ㄹ. Hangul's first documentary record dates to 1443, and its explanatory book was published in 1446.
What does 뻘- mean online?
It makes the next word sound pointless or unserious. Online, 뻘짓 is a futile or silly effort, and 뻘글 is low-content writing; both can be self-mocking or dismissive. A creator-community glossary in 2023 used 뻘트 for a meaningless tweet. The whole word sets the reading: these compounds are not about mud.
Literal use is regional; online compounds can sound blunt, self-mocking, or dismissive.
For neutral formal Korean, use 갯벌 or 개흙.
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Who writes 뻘
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Don't confuse it with
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갯벌 A neutral standard word for a tidal flat; it fits formal writing better than regional 뻘.
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1Why does 뻘 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 뻘
- Also called
- ppeol
- Search it as
- 뻘짓 · 뻘글 · 뻘소리 · 뻘트 · 갯벌 · 개펄 · 펄 · 개흙
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
뻘\BED8Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.